Thursday, July 31, 2008 – Psychic Dislocation

The pre-dawn ground fog on the last morning of July in Los Angeles just wouldn't go away.  There was no real sunrise – the morning just slowly got less dark, and then oddly translucent. It was kind of spooky, and mysteriously quiet – and you suspected most people were feeling dislocated and a tad alienated.  This was the other Southern California, and one of those days you just notice things.

There was this psychic shop on Venice Boulevard, just west of Sepulveda –

But the sun broke through, finally, and fell full on this moon and lotus blossom down the way in Santa Monica –

But in Venice there was this odd double-locked door –

Near that door, an odd mural –

Otherwise –

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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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