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The downtown Los Angeles skyline has many looks. It is a small cluster of tall buildings in a sweeping plain of smaller houses and strip malls. It is a brilliant jewel set against snow-capped mountains. In this photograph I wanted a more intimate feel, closer-in but still distinguishable as a skyline. On this evening the sun and the moon agreed with me. The Western sky was a brilliant gold reflected in the buildings, the Earth shadow created a beautiful cool horizon behind the buildings, and the rising moon provided a perfect accent in a gap that, as of this posting, is no longer a gap.

I began making photographs when I was 13 years old. I created a darkroom using a slide projector, some old food trays, and chemicals and paper my brother liberated from the neighbor's trash. 10 years later I was published in Time Magazine, and 10 years after that I was in graduate school studying political science. After more than 20 years studying, working, and teaching at UCLA I returned to my first love -- photography. Where the commercial work of my youth was mostly personalities (think 1980s television shows) I have always been drawn to landscapes, which are now my primary artistic focus. The photos I post here are a subset of my work. For the most recent stuff, visit my website www.joedohertyphotography.com.