Thursday, July 3, 2008 – So Very California

A bit of cultural anthropology –

Local trucks –

Ah, Elvis and Marilyn –

But what is Southern California without a beach and a girl in a bikini?

At the end of Sixteenth Street in Hermosa Beach, the totem pole at the main volleyball net, with, as you see, a volleyball –

On the other hand, what would Los Angeles be without a Sleeping Señor on every low-end Mexican restaurant? This is Tito's Tacos in Culver City.

And at the beach –

Ah!  No Sleeping Señor here!

The Anglo answer to the ubiquitous Sleeping Señor –

No explanation –

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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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