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Friday, December 21, 2007 – Dark City

If you listen to Le Show on NPR, you know that the satirist Harry Shearer likes to refer to Santa Monica as the "Home of the homeless."  Now everyone knows that.  And it can be a dark city, like in the 1950 film.  Just look.

Homeless man sitting, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Homeless man sitting, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica

A rooftop –

Roof with colored face, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica

Looking down on it all –

Stone face, Criterion Theater, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Clock tower, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Modern geometric façade - Ocean Boulevard, Santa Monica

From the rooftops, looking east toward Hollywood –

View east from rooftop in Santa Monica

Looking west, toward the empty Pacific –

View west from rooftop in Santa Monica

The darkness –

Decorative cornice, Criterion Theater, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Upside-down exit sign at elevator in parking structure, Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica

Home?

Airstream trailer in alley at Broadway and Cloverfield, Santa Monica

If you wish to use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me. And should you choose to download any of these images and use them invoking the "fair use" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, please provide credit, and, on the web, a link back this site.

Technical Note:

Most of these photographs were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  Earlier photography was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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