The scruffy side of town – 8663 Venice Boulevard, Culver City –
Hawkins Martial Arts, just to the left –
Between the two, a makeup and special-effects store (the giant Sony-Columbia Studios, formerly MGM, where they filmed the Wizard of OZ and Gone With the Wind, is just down the street) –
And down the way, Venice Beach itself –
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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.