His usual way of taking photos, Phil Stockbridge says, is like an angler waiting for a fish. The LA-based photographer had been working on a\u00a0commercial shoot on the day he landed this image. \u201cWhen I find something interesting to shoot, the main thing that starts to churn in my brain is light and composition. A lot of the time the subject\u2019s missing and I\u2019ll sit and wait like a fisherman for the right person or car to make the image. Luckily, for this scene, it was all laid out for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stockbridge believes this to be a Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham, and notes how he was drawn by \u201cthe shadow of a parking sign, the street lamp in the distance, the LA sky, a slouched fence and the edge of the sidewalk. A Long Beach day turning into a\u00a0Long Beach night is on full display here. The traffic\u2019s dying down, it\u2019s getting quieter, cooler. The sun has set and all that\u2019s left of it remains in the dark blue sky.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stockbridge took the image on his phone, later applying edits using VSCO and Lightroom. \u201cI hope someone seeing this feels a calm washing over them,\u201d he says, \u201cbut I never take photos with the intention of making the\u00a0viewer feel something. That\u00a0stuff finds its way\u00a0afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His usual way of taking photos, Phil Stockbridge says, is like an angler waiting for a fish. The…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-131697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114998811357378131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}