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Rockin’ Out, San Gabriel Mountains
Along Angeles Crest Highway in Los Angeles County’s San Gabriel Mountains, I came across this man playing drums. He set himself up at the edge of the road, overlooking a vast canyon through which his drums echoed, and beat along to the music playing through his headphones. As I was making the photograph, an emergency truck sped by, sirens blaring — cacophony shatters the mountains’ silence.

Rockin Out, San Gabriel Mountains

exuberance © Matt Jalbert 2001