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# Los Angeles
- URL: https://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/photos/los-angeles/
- Published: 2019-07-19T15:31:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-04T10:25:17.000Z
- Description: The first time I visited Los Angeles I hated it. The second time I liked it. The third time I loved it. I can't wait to go back.
- Author: Ivar Hagendoorn
- Tags: Photography

The first time I visited Los Angeles I hated it. The second time I liked it. The third time I loved it. Los Angeles is difficult to crack. You really need a car to explore the city, which I didn't have on my first visit. There is no centre as in Paris or New York. It is more a collection of neighbourhoods. But if you take your time it is in fact an amazing city. I also found it far more inspiring than "beautiful" cities such as Florence or Venice, where everything is presented on a plate. I can't wait to go back.

![Los Angeles Downtown](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2022/12/los-angeles-1.jpg)

Coming soon? Maybe. Downtown Los Angeles

![Downtown Los Angeles](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-3.jpg)

Downtown Los Angeles

![Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-2.jpg)

Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-4.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-6.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-5.jpg)

Vernon, Los Angeles

![Trees in full bloom in downtown LA](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2024/02/los-angeles-31.jpg)

Yes, trees in full bloom in downtown LA

![Dirty realism in downtown LA](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-9.jpg)

Dirty realism in downtown LA

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-11-1.jpg)

Someone must have taken care to give this mannequin this melancholic facial expression

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-10.jpg)

Across downtown Los Angeles you could (can?) find these street stalls selling magazines

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-14.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-7.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-8.jpg)

Oakwood, Los Angeles

![View of downtown Los Angeles](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-12.jpg)

View of downtown Los Angeles from the roof of a parking space at USC

![Koreatown, Los Angeles](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-13.jpg)

Koreatown, Los Angeles

![Inglewood Oil Field, Los Angeles](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-16.jpg)

The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles is still operational

![Inglewood Oil Field, Los Angeles](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2024/02/los-angeles-34.jpg)

The Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles. I found it photogenic. The people living across the oil field probably not so.

![Looking down S. Figueroa St to downtown LA](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2024/02/los-angeles-35.jpg)

Looking down S. Figueroa St to downtown LA

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-17-1.jpg)

Dirty realism in Little Venice

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2024/02/los-angeles-33.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2024/02/los-angeles-32.jpg)

The owner of a vintage clothes store got creative (left), so did the owner of a drug store (right)

![Venice, Los Angeles](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f7/c4/f7c4338c-1a69-4369-8416-8d74c9880bb6/content/images/2019/08/los-angeles-18.jpg)

Venice, Los Angeles