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Tuesday, May 8, 2007 - Out of Context

Sometimes the world is best understood when context is removed, and you just get pure images.  Here's the Sunset Strip on a hot afternoon, images that give a feel for the place - advertisements stripped of content (what you are being sold), leaving only general cultural residue. It's like being in a foreign country, where you know something is being promoted, but you don't know the words and all you have is a sense of the culture and its core values. The kiosks of Paris can be like that - the images tell you a lot about the French when you simply stop trying to puzzle out the words. Here, the billboards on Sunset give you what we dream about.
Billboard, Sunset Strip - White and Blue
Target Stores billboard, Sunset Strip - Red Guitar, Green Stucco
Target Stores billboard, Sunset Strip - White Arm, Red Circles
Movie billboard, Sunset Strip
Movie billboard, Sunset Strip

A bit of classicism, a column at Tangerine, Sunset at Holloway -
A bit of classicism, a column at Tangerine, Sunset at Holloway

The real world impinges itself on things.  In the distance - Dangerous Wildfire Forces Evacuations in LA's Griffith Park - "A wildfire roiled through rugged brush-covered hills in the city's sprawling Griffith Park on Tuesday, triggering evacuations of the city zoo, a museum and other popular sites as dangerously hot and dry conditions plagued Southern California."
Dangerous Wildfire Forces Evacuations in LA's Griffith Park - from Sunset Plaza

From the window here -
Dangerous Wildfire Forces Evacuations in LA's Griffith Park

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:

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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