Mean Streets

Counter added Sunday, March 25, 2007 -11:00 am Pacific Time


	*Photography*


	Monday, May 7, 2007 - Mean Streets


	This date - the Santa Ana winds blowing in off the high desert, full of alkali and grit, making everyone tense - in the nineties by early afternoon, with no humidity. Red flag warnings in the hills - gusts to fifty after sunset - high fire danger - so be careful. On such a day, with everyone on edge, Hollywood looks mean. Sunset at Cahuenga - a mean film on the way -

		The Gilbert Hotel on Wilcox, pink and baking -


	The loading zone there for the King of Kings -




Across the street, the fellow who does guitar repair has left -



		Hip has faded -



	The poison-green wall on Cahuenga again -


		Yellow billboard - Wilcox -



	Below the billboard, the remaining idealists -



Ring to exit -



			Twilight, Laurel Canyon

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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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