Wednesday, July 16, 2008 – Slices of Local Life

When the traffic is heavy and you're at a dead stop you notice things. A bit of French on Hollywood Boulevard that seems to impress no one – no one is dropping in to buy transparent erotic lingerie and push-up corsets and such things. It's just another place.

Stuck in traffic on Old Route 66 – Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood – a different view of things –

Stuck in traffic in Hollywood's Theater District – Highland Avenue near Santa Monica Boulevard –

Stuck in traffic on Cahuenga, just south of CNN's west coast bureau, amid all the post-production houses, the new Black Firefighters Museum –

Through the sunroof, Hollywood Boulevard –

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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