Wednesday, May 14, 2008 – Dragons on Cherokee

It's not just the world famous Chinese Theater.  Some days, given the dragons, even the odd corners of Hollywood feel like the Far East.

A few step north of Hollywood Boulevard, the dragons at Alexa Artiste, an old apartment house at 1746 Cherokee –

Note the mysterious man in the sunglasses –

A few steps away, the new paint job at the far-beyond-trendy Geisha House (formerly the Studio Café) –

The rococo Spanish Revival UTC building to the right of the Geisha House – the jacaranda gives it an oriental touch –

Okay, okay – this is America –

And here's the Hollywood one expects –

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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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