Ribbon of Light to the City of Stars

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This photo is part of a series of long-exposure photos of freeway interchanges. The goal of this series is to show the beauty of the engineering marvel that is the Interstate Highway System, while also making apparent the scars created on our landscape in service of our car culture.

Pictured is SR-2 leaving Glendale, CA, towards Downtown Los Angeles. This photo clearly illustrates the cut between two idyllic hillsides necessary to serve the car culture in the car capitol of the world.

EXIF Data

  • Image Dimensions: 5760 x 3840

  • Exposure: 15.0 sec, f/22, ISO 100

  • Focal Length: 170mm

  • Camera: Canon 5D mk iii

  • Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L USM

About the Photographer

Grant Henninger is a landscape photographer based in Orange County, CA. As of 2021, he is working on two on-going projects, one capturing freeway interchanges and the scars they leave on our landscape, and the second capturing images of the wildland urban interface in high fire hazard areas. In addition to photography, Grant is an urban planner, which is what drives his interest in photographing landscapes related to land use issues.