Beers And Cameras™ Los Angeles

A meet-up?

Beers And Cameras Los Angeles is a bi-weekly meet-up group that meets at local breweries and restaurants, often bouncing from one to the other every 1.5 hrs. all while taking pictures, geeking-out on gear, and enjoying delicious indie-beer. The meet-ups are attended by photographers, videographers, and creatives looking to build a stronger local community. #CommunityFirst!

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During these events, posting to your personal social media accounts is encouraged. The venues visited will often repost the photos uploaded and will receive a link from B&C with photos from those who want to share them. The venues are free to use these photos on their social media accounts, tagging the photographer and Beers and Cameras' Instagram and Facebook accounts. We encourage all share their photos in order to have their pictures reposted by the venue and Beers And Cameras LA. Link to our group Flikr account here.

Our latest from Instagram

San Diego, roll out to @westbrewdowntown 6pm May 25th followed by a photowalk around #downtownSD ending at @littlemissbrewing! Lets make this a special meetup with a #vintageDigital focus. Of course all film and digital welcome, and all experience levels. See ya then! #beersandcameras #sandiegophotographer #leicaQ2

Ten analog from our last #beersandcameras meetup in San Diego at @harlandbeer Bay Park. We are looking forward to our next one May 25th location TBD 🤔 Any SoCal photogs have suggestions of craft beer to check out?! #filmfriday #thedarkroomlab

San Diego photographers at @harlandbeer Bay Park during last #beersandcameras. Our next one is going down on May 25th! Should we make the it a print critique/swap?? It’s been a minute since we’ve tried that. #sandiegolife #leicacamera

Ten horizontalzzz from @halfacrebeer in Chicago during our @thedarkroomlab #beersandcameras events on @reflx_lab 400D film. Shot the digital as well and we’ll see if those see the light of day… not at this rate thanks Lightroom 😩Super fun times tho with amazing Chicago community. So much so in fact, we’re working out details for the first @beersandcameras_chi meetup… more to come! Dev/scan friends at #thedarkroomlab via #leicaM7 and #nokton35mmf15 lens @voigtlander_offiziell

Raaaandoms #beersandcameras 🍻 with San Diego photographers. #leicacamera

Ten horizontal snaps from Thursdays #beersandcameras pre-photowalk at @harlandbeer Bay Park. As always, so fun to hang out with San Diego photographers over some craft brews! 🍻 Seen for first time were the #FujiXt5 (2 of them) and the #mamiya645pro #beersandcameras finally in hand. Thing is epic! Shots with our Leica SL2-S 🔴 #leicacamera Voigtlander #nokton35mmf15 from @camera_quest

Our next #beersandcameras San Diego is happening May 11th at @harlandbeer in Bay Park! Led by @philliphernandez our meetup starts at 5pm with a photowalk #chasingsunsets around 6-6:15pm. We’ll be trying out a new activity with the group to encourage even more interaction. As always, both digital and film friendly and we welcome beginners as well as professionals to come hang out. Snap of @john.sypal @tokyocamerastyle with @r.barbee checking out the new #LeicaM6 while in Wetzlar Germany last winter. #thedarkroomlab #sdphotographer

The views from the deck of our river cruise boat provided a unique perspective to the city. The #LeicaR9 with a 35-70 f4 lens making it much more versatile than the Hassy for exploring the scenery via the lens. Many more images taken with the Leica M10-R await to be discovered, but not holding our breath it will unveil anything spectacular either 😆 The funnest part of this river trip was the time spent engaging with friends and not photographing but taking a break and feasting on the scenery. #thedarkroomlab_chicago2023 #beersandcameras #chicagophotographer

Shooting the square format of the Hasselblad #hasselblad500cm left me feeling like @50_shades_of_jason here… 😄 Think the 6x9 format of something like the Fuji GW69 would have made more sense…but that was left behind. But it was still tons of fun taking the boat cruise through downtown Chicago with our guests and @thedarkroomlab last Saturday! Chicago is a city filled with architectural marvels and makes us want to visit other states and explore more. Plus getting to see my childhood hero Sears Tower (Willis Tower) in person was just soo cool! #beersandcameras #thedarkroomlab_chicago2023

@gmcmanus10 (Glenn) took our group through an unassuming door into the rear of a vast and cavernous train station 🚉 We were amazed at the luck to shoot an area without the crowds and pedestrians making things difficult. It felt a bit surreal and even liminal as we tried to make some images while feeling as though we’d be kicked out at anytime; we eventually were. First three snaps with @leicacamerausa #leicaR9, Leica 35-70 f4 lens and @kodakprofessional Porta400 and last 3 with the #LeicaM7 #nokton35mmf15 and @reflx_lab 400D film. Processing by @thedarkroomlab obviously #thedarkroomlab_chicago2023