Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Chinatown with a Vietnamese flavor


VIETNAMESE JEWELRY SHOP IN CHINATOWN, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 27, 2010

Pentax K20D
Sigma 10-20 EX DC at 10mm
1/1500 sec. f8
ISO 400

In recent years Vietnamese (and Japanese and Cambodian) shops have been scattered throughout Los Angeles' Chinatown district, and this corner of Broadway, the district's main drag, was a good spot to try out some deliberate distortion of perspective with a new super-wide-angle Sigma zoom lens. Click on the image for a desktop-sized version.

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