Scott H Brown Art and Photography

11/09/2024

03/02/2022

something different

01/14/2022

12/26/2021

Sarah Wi******er built a house with many bizarre features that according to legend either were to confuse and annoy the spirits of those killed by the Wi******er rifle that haunted the Wi******er fortune and that Sarah lived in fear of, or it was the way the spirits told her to build the house in one of her nightly séances and the more reasonable explanation, that Sarah was an amateur architect with no formal training and these were "minor" building errors. In reality the vast majority of what is written in history about Sarah Wi******er is based on rumors and gossip started by the women of high society in San Jose who didn't take kindly to the fact that Sarah Wi******er wanted to have nothing to do with them or the life a woman of high society was supposed to live at the time, these rumors were spread across the nation by the media and became widely accepted as fact since Sarah never once spoke out to set the record straight, and have been kept alive by the owners of the house since the day she died.

08/09/2020

07/12/2020

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/san-gabriel-mission-fire-damage-historic-church-los-angeles/2394627/

An early morning fire caused extensive damage Saturday to the nearly 250-year-old San Gabriel Mission, a landmark in the history of Southern California that contains artifacts dating to the late 1700s. Details about the cause of the fire at the historic mission at 428 South Mission Drive in San Gabr...

07/11/2020

The mission was founded on September 8, 1771 by Fathers Pedro Cambon and Angel Somera. The planned site for the Mission was along the banks of the Río de los Temblores (the River of the Earthquakes—the Santa Ana River). However, the priests chose an alternate site on a fertile plain located directly alongside the Rio Hondo in the Whittier Narrows.The site of the Misión Vieja (or "Old Mission") is located near the intersection of San Gabriel Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue in Montebello, California (known to the natives as Shevaanga). In 1776, a flash flood destroyed much of the crops and ruined the Mission complex, which was subsequently relocated five miles closer to the mountains in present-day San Gabriel (the native settlement of 'Iisanchanga). The Mission is the base from which the pueblo that became the City of Los Angeles, California was sent. On December 9, 1812 (the "Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin") a series of massive earthquakes shook Southern California. The 1812 Wrightwood Earthquake caused the three-bell campanario, located adjacent to the chapel's east façade, to collapse. A larger, six-bell structure was subsequently constructed at the far end of the capilla.
Legend has it that the founding expedition was confronted by a large group of native Tongva peoples whose intention was to drive the strangers away. One of the padres laid a painting of "Our Lady of Sorrows" on the ground for all to see, whereupon the natives (known to the settlers as the Gabrieliños) immediately made peace with the missionaries, so moved were they by the painting's beauty. Today the 300-year-old piece hangs in the Mission's reredos (sanctuary).
The Mission's chapel functioned as a parish church for the City of San Gabriel from 1862 until 1908, when the Claretian Missionary Fathers came to San Gabriel and began the job of rebuilding and restoring the Mission. On October 1, 1987 the Whittier Narrows Earthquake further damaged the property. A significant portion of the original complex has since been restored.

04/28/2020

Very impressed with shutterstock, amazing quality

04/13/2020

02/27/2020

experimenting with lighting

01/26/2020