Downtown Los Angeles from Griffith Park

Excellent photo by Mack Reed over on Metroblogging.la: “Frigid dawn over Los Angeles”:

Absolutely beautiful. About ten years ago I worked downtown on the night shift at California Hospital, just a few years after that I worked as a temp at ARCO working on web pages, where I first encountered any server-side programming in a little language called Perl. Photos like these remind me of the great beauty possible in a city some consider ugly and cruel. Not me. Me, I love Los Angeles.