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Earlier this year I flew to Los Angeles, CA in order to attend the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards Show. As a fan of music in general you can probably guess how stoked I was to land a pair of tickets for this event. This is an event that I have always seen on TV and to finally have a pair of tickets and for the first time seeing the event unfold live and in person was amazing!

I arrived the day before the event and had to pick up my tickets from Will Call at The Staples Center. The entire area was jam packed with security, TV trucks, barricades etc so I wandered around trying to find the right place I needed to go to in order to get my tickets. During my walk around the outside of The Staples Center I noticed some very interesting lines of the building itself so like any photographer would do, I stopped to snap off a few shots of it.

Canon EOS-5D Mark II : Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L : 1/1000th : f/7.1 : 100 ISO : 50mm : Aperture Priority : 0 Bias : No Flash

I had so much in Los Angeles that weekend and attending the Grammys was the icing on the cake! I got to walk down the red carpet, no not the same red carpet as the important people but right along side that so we got to see all of the people conducting their short TV interviews and such. It was very very cool to see the behind the scenes stuff in regards to the production of the entire event. That’s definitely something you don’t get to see while watching it on TV! Needless to say I will definitely be making plans to attend the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards Show coming up in 2011! I can’t wait!

A friend of mine MarcoFromHouston had a showing at Aersol Warfare for Art Crawl 2008 and I decided to give my Canon 35 f1.4L a good shake down run.

A group of local graffiti artists were commissioned by a local business owner to come out and create some artwork on all four walls of his large building. I stopped by to check out the process and shoot a few shots.