Saturday, March 15, 2008 – Crossroads Sun

The Ides of March at the Crossroads of the World, actually just down the street on Sunset Boulevard – and as you know, the crossroads of everything has been right there since 1936.  It is an odd place – you've seen it in many a film and on an album cover or two.  No, Caesar wasn't stabbed here, changing everything.  It's just offices – casting agencies and minor production companies – housed in what looks like a miniature ocean liner. And it's all a little shabby after all these years.  But the gardens are nice, and, as a place where everything is supposed to meet, it will do nicely.

At a casting agency –

It may be the Ides of March, but this is probably not Caesar –

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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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