Saturday, June 9, 2007 – Absurdist Blooms

Absurd-looking blooms. Location – almost Beverly Hills, Doheny and Alden (Beverly Hills adjacent, as they say), a few steps from the Four Seasons Hotel (where, speaking of absurdity, Mel Gibson was talked into doing "Hamlet" by Franco Zeffirelli, and where, in 1996, a year and a half before his death, Frank Sinatra celebrated his eightieth birthday – he and Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, and Tony Bennett gathered around the piano singing the old tunes).

The blooms here range from yellow to white for some reason - genetics or the level of exposure to the brutal Southern California sun.

The clear the visual palette, what else was in the curbside garden –

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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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