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Friday, December 18, 2009 – Above It All (… or above Los Angeles)

The third Friday in December in Los Angeles – sunny skies and pushing eighty at noon – and there's snow in the mountains of course. Those mountains are the last wall that separates Los Angeles from the rest of America. This is the view northwest from the Griffith Park Observatory, floating high above Hollywood.






	A fancy home overlooking the San Fernando Valley (it's down there somewhere) –


	In the flats to the south, the City of Los Angeles –


	Vermont Avenue, if you want to walk down to the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach –


	Behind the observatory, northwest, Mount Lee and the Hollywood Sign –

Hollywood Sign - view from the Griffith Park Observatory above Hollywood - Friday, December 18, 2009

Bust of James Dean at the Griffith Park Observatory

Directly below, Hollywood itself –

Hollywood - view from the Griffith Park Observatory above Hollywood - Friday, December 18, 2009

And way off to the southwest, Catalina, in case you left you love in Avalon, beside the sea –

Catalina Island - view from the Griffith Park Observatory above Hollywood - Friday, December 18, 2009

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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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[December 2009] [Mysterious Alley] [Simple Colors] [You Are] [Working Hollywood] [The Berlin Wall] [Hello Girls] [Museum Light] [Christmas Dislocation] [A Dark Garden] [Rainy Day Deco] [Blue Christmas] [Will Farrell] [Demanding Attention] [Hollywood 1926-1928] [Graffiti Trio] [North of Pink's] [The Neighborhood] [Heavy Rain] [The La Brea Wall] [Workers] [In the Alley] [Lighting Hollywood] [Old and New] [Chinese Christmas] [Certain Danger] [Above It All] [Observatory Sky] [For Christmas] [A Rich Christmas] [Uncertainty] [Clouds Over Sunset] [Almost Here] [Winter Shadows] [Nutmeg Christmas] [California Poppy] [Year End Images] [Late Afternoon] [That's a Wrap]