Saturday, March 8, 2008 – Set Dressing

So it's a movie set – Greystone Mansion a few miles west in Beverly Hills. You just saw the place in There Will Be Blood, or you saw it in the fifty-three other films shot there.  But on a quiet Saturday morning – no blood, and no film crews – just the gardens, and no one around. There's just Cistus purpureus - Orchid Rockrose.

And there are the winter Calla Lilies – Zantedeschia aethiopica (the big white ones) –

How about a bit of blue?

A daylily – but not a lily, really – actually a member of the small genus Hemerocallis, flowering plants in the family Hemerocallidaceae – is case you were wondering. True lilies are Lilium in family Liliaceae.  It doesn't matter.

No idea – but there is a new Star Trek movie in production down at Paramount.  Maybe they'll be doing location shots here.

The only crew around on a Saturday morning –

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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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