So I decided to complete a site redesign on the richbrown.io site in my spare time over the past few weeks. Why, you might ask, was that necessary? It wasn’t really, it was just something I felt like doing to give myself a new start toward a side project. Over the past few years, since I created a new personal […]

Let’s be honest. Can we really have too much pride? I’ve often bucked at the thought of changing the pride flag based on my “old” ideas of a need for historical preservation but the reality is that times are changing. People are changing. Attitudes are changing. As a result, we can celebrate history while at the same time evolving our […]

While there are some days that really test my patience, I can’t imaging living life without animals. I’ve had dogs in my life since I was a child and today I have 2 white shepherds and a border collie. The house is full of barking, growling, and little feet constantly running around but without this, it would be a dull […]

I shot this photo back in 2013 at the Los Angeles Pride Festival. I don’t know why, but I love taking photos of people when they are facing the other direction. Partly because I feel like I’m capturing their moment for a brief second, partly because I still get intimidated taking photos of random people on the street. When I […]

I lived in Chicago for a very brief 11 months when I moved the technology operations for my company from Los Angeles to Chicago. I was able to make one of my dreams come true which was to live in a high rise building. This shot is a composite image of 5 separate shots taken from the roof the Optima […]

I love finding interesting spots in Los Angeles to snap a long exposure. This shot has been replicated many times now by photographers all over the world. I took this photograph from the west side of the 110 freeway facing East towards the Downtown Los Angeles skyline on 4th Street. The light trail is a bus passing by as I […]

One day I was walking along the beach in Santa Monica and I saw this older couple who were holding hands, stop and sit down together on a bench facing the beach. She turned to him and started talking and the way they looked together was a really raw moment of real love. I stopped to snap this photo and […]