The View from the Getty / Martha Hernandez and Dayanara Saucedo

The View from the Getty


By Martha Hernandez and Dayanara Saucedo

This photograph has an interesting theme: LA and how it represents architecture. The reason why I chose this picture was very weird and interesting. What caught my attention were the colors and the view. I chose this picture because I feel very calm when I look at it. I decide to change it to all blue because blue is one of my favorite colors and it seems even more peaceful. I didn’t leave all the colors different because it seemed very busy with all the cars going to work. I actually wonder sometimes how the world would look if it was all in one color.

If you look closely at the buildings, you might think that’s Downtown, but it's not. Downtown is in the background, but it's very small and blurry. The buildings that are close are Century City. If you continue looking at the freeway you would see that there are lots of cars with people are going to work. When I looked at the end of the freeway, the surroundings seemed lonely and deserted. I also noticed that the end of the freeway is also a vanishing point. The foreground is all grassy and covered in trees and bushes. In the middle ground there are few trees. Then, in the background, there are no trees or signs of nature; there are more roads and freeways. When I think of LA, I think of just buildings.