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In the gardens at the Crossroads of the World on Sunset Boulevard, May opens with brilliant sunshine – no production companies filming there this day. But they should be, what with all the Shasta daisies (Leucanthemum x superbum) everywhere you look. These used to be classified in the genus Chrysanthemum, but they originated as a hybrid produced by Luther Burbank, a hybrid that ended up not much the source material at all. It was something new. And that's sort of a Hollywood thing. Warner Brothers, over the hill in Burbank – the town named for Luther Burbank – does the same sort of thing when they make movies based on a true story or a best-selling novel or whatever. You get something new, really. And these are sort of secondary suns.
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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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All text and photos unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Alan M. Pavlik
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