Thursday, June 26, 2008 – About the Visual

What catches your eye in Hollywood is most often connected with the entertainment industry, naturally, or the history of the place – the haunts of the stars of yesterday and all that – or reminds you of the strangeness of Los Angeles itself – a cultural curiosity, so deeply American and at the same time so surreal – about which everyone seems to have an opinion. And there's always noting where Paris Hilton hangs out or current trends on the Sunset Strip.  But sometimes what catches your eye has nothing to do with anything in particular – just the odd light, the colors, the angles and shapes. You shut down all that thought about just what you're seeing and how it connects to this or that - and you just see things, as they are, meaning nothing in particular. Maybe it's Zen thing.

The stucco walls at the Howard Fine Acting Studio and Hollywood Playhouse, Las Palmas Avenue at Sunset Boulevard –

Near the door –

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Technical Note:

Photographs after March 3, 2008, were taken with a Nikon D200 – or a Nikon D70 when noted. All previous photographs were taken with the D70. The lenses used are (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto, or (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. Photography here is modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  The earliest photography in the archives was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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