Golden hour at Los Angeles State Historic Park (a photo-blog)

The golden hour, as it is known, is a fortuitous place and time with triangulation in mind, in regards to photography. 

It would appear, and I heard it so, that I just happened to hit upon the golden hour here at Los Angeles State Historic Park, nearby the southernmost building as a photographer, with my new TCL Alcatel LX phone, with an 8 megapixel rear camera. 

I'm definitely pleased with the results. The slim crescent moon is just overhead, around 6:45 pm as I face a tree off to the side of the western edge of DTLA. The sun is 20°-30° over on my right hand side, and it's a mildly warm summer day that started with thick haze, nearly precipitation, but only some barely sprinkles in the air, this morning.  

In imagining how I might [or what I might] like to have within the frame, there ended up being three types of photographs. The first, I had imagined, ought to be a panorama, as a survey of the grounds of the park, with the towering high rise buildings as a focus; the foreground - young trees, lawn and hills, grit dirt winding walking path. Instead, however, I accidentally hit the time lapse button, so I've got a first-off Impressionist rendition a la Claude Monét or Vincent Van Gogh.

A photographic Impressionist image, if I might say so, myself.

The contrast of the setting sun over the hills, with the palm trees, Elysian Park, and some institutional buildings of Chinatown frame the monochromatic

mon·o·chro·mat·ic

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adjective

1. containing or using only one color.

   "monochromatic light"

   • PHYSICS

     (of light or other radiation) of a single wavelength or frequency.

(nearly) stark character of a compositional analysis. 

I felt that this silhouette would suffice for another compositional frame to photograph.

I'd been [colloquially] trawling Facebook for stimulation and catching up, and the Los Angeles State Historic Park is one of my likes and follows on my profile. There was supposed to be a campfire tonight, ( hmm.. ) but then again, I think they said it was a family thing. There's a group here. They're supposed to be showing a Disney movie, or something like that.

Panorama view of the summer's early evening sunset with a crescent moon above me. It seems a fortunate place and time that I fell into today, here at the park.