Photographer turned Filmaker turned photgrapher Christoph Martin Schmid captures the Essence of Los Angeles by creating a sense of perfection to the place which doesn’t actually exist. We’ve long suspected New Yorkers and Bay Area residents like to hate on the City of Angels because it revels in it’s own fakeness, and Christoph Martin Schmid creates an fantastic illustration of this idea.

We also feel hit a little close to home as we look through Martin Schmid’s shots of the Griffith Park fire. Especially as half southern California is currently facing the same treatment form mother nature today.