Friday, December 21, 2007 – Dark City

If you listen to Le Show on NPR, you know that the satirist Harry Shearer likes to refer to Santa Monica as the "Home of the homeless."  Now everyone knows that.  And it can be a dark city, like in the 1950 film.  Just look.

A rooftop –

Looking down on it all –

From the rooftops, looking east toward Hollywood –

Looking west, toward the empty Pacific –

The darkness –

Home?

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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.

All text and photos, unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Alan M. Pavlik