Sunday, January 6, 2008 – Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon (1940) is the most famous novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler – the one about the Stalinist show-trials. Rubashov, a Bolshevik guard and 1917 revolutionary who is first cast out and then imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he once helped create. Whatever – it has a good title.  While wandering around Hollywood the weekend of a dark storm, camera in hand, those words can ring in your ears.

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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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