Pacific Palisades photographer Robert Larson caught the drama of a mackerel sky in this sunset shot from the bluffs at the end of Swarthmore Avenue in 2005. ’This was the second roll of film I shot’and one of my first photographs,’ said Larson, who was a college student at the time. Since then, he has traveled the world, from Africa to Haiti, and he’s currently working on a project about Los Angeles. ‘I think it’s coming together; I am enjoying getting to know my city,’ he told the Palisadian-Post. Larson was born in Texas but spent a great deal of his childhood with his grandparents in Pacific Palisades. At 19, ‘during a very empty and aimless period of my life, I took a basic photography course at Santa Monica College. I felt an internal click (excuse the pun) deep within me. I started to constantly ditch class to go take pictures, and so it began.’ A year later he went to Australia on his first trip abroad and fell in love with collecting unexpected experiences. Since then he have traveled as much as he can and will continue to do so. ‘More often than not my only companion on these trips has been a camera,’ he said. ’I now live in Pacific Palisades and I recently completed the Julia Dean Photo Workshop’s one-year program,’ Larson said. ‘I am a photographer and a writer, but mainly, I am a work in progress.’
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