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Photo Op: Carroll Avenue Revisited

September 25th, 2008 | Category: Angeleno Sights

While organizing my old digital files I stumbled across this detail shot of a dusk-lit Victorian porch on Carroll Ave. It was snapped about two years ago with my then-new Nikon D70s, just after I took up amateur photography.

Each fall I like to return to Carroll Ave. and take in its haunting Victorian homes. Part of the Angelino Heights historic overlay zone, the street dates to the 1880s and  boasts the highest concentration of Victorian residences in the city — not to mention great downtown views.

Designed by the architect Joseph Cather Newsom, the ornate, 12-room house depicted here was built in 1889 for dairyman Charles Sessions.

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  1. Hilda September 25th, 2008 4:47 pm

    Mike, I remember when you were taking that photography class and snapped this — you sent it to me for an opinion. I liked it then and I still like it now. (Was that really two years ago?)

  2. Michael Imlay September 25th, 2008 5:48 pm

    Thanks, Hilda. Yes, it really was two years ago… Tempis Fugit, eh? — mi

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