Friday, March 7, 2008 – Hollywood Telephoto

You notice different things on Hollywood Boulevard when you snap on the telephoto lens.  There's Jim Morrison's eye.

And there is a reason the site of every major movie premiere since 1927, Grauman's Chinese Theater, is called the Chinese –

The folks in front of the Chinese Theater don't seem Chinese at all –

Forget the fake Chinese stuff, and pay attention to the Art Deco detailing on the boulevard, left over from the twenties and thirties –

The moon dome is just odd –

From the architects of the Chinese Theater, more oddness a short block east, at the Hollywood First National Bank Building (originally the Pacific-Southwest Trust and Savings), 6777 Hollywood Boulevard – 1927-28, Meyer and Holler –

Ah, it's just Hollywood –

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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.

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