Monday, July 21, 2008 – Fakery

Everyone likes a pretty picture of the sunset. You can get too literal about that, of course. Sunset Boulevard at Sunset Plaza Drive, on the Sunset Strip –

How about a fake palm? This one is at Rainforest – a first-rate pizza place and a hookah bar, Sunset at Garner –

Next door, a big fake egg –

Facing the big fake egg, the angry fake sun –

The setting –

On the other side of the big fake egg, the one-eyed three-legged atomic man Cyclops reading his book –

A few feet east, a normal guy –

The normal guy is looking out at this, on the lamppost out front –

If you wish to use any of these photos for commercial purposes I assume you'll discuss that with me. And should you choose to download any of these images and use them invoking the "fair use" provisions of the Copyright Act of 1976, please provide credit, and, on the web, a link back this site. 

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.

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