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September 2009

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 – Starring Pigeons

There's that 1990 movie Pretty Woman – one more of those where the Prostitute with a Heart of Gold saves the absurdly successful and rich uptight, respectable man from himself, and makes him, finally, a good person. In the last scene, where he thinks he's lost her, Richard Gere rushes to the seedy Hollywood hotel to which Julia Robert has returned, and stands under her window. He confesses his undying love for her. He will be a good person. She will be saved from her life of sin. Everything will be great. A funky black dude in a big hat rides by on a bicycle and utters the final line of the movie – "It’s Hollywood, man"

This is the hotel, on Las Palmas.

Pigeons, Las Palmas Hotel, Hollywood
Pigeons, Las Palmas Hotel, Hollywood
Pigeons, Las Palmas Hotel, Hollywood
Pigeons, Las Palmas Hotel, Hollywood
Pigeons, Las Palmas Hotel, Hollywood
Pigeons, Las Palmas Hotel, Hollywood

And Hollywood had never been good at war movies, either –

Pigeon, Supply Sergeant, Hollywood Boulevard
Pigeon, Supply Sergeant, Hollywood Boulevard

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Technical Note:

These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto.  The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.

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