Thursday, July 10, 2008 – Stuck at Home

So much for a day of photographing Los Angeles – stuck at home with a monster summer cold, Kleenex at hand, pills to clear the head at the ready. It was no day to bop around in the Mini Cooper – what with the sneezing and the chills, and that warning from the drug folks on the box. Is the Mini Cooper heavy equipment?  Best to not to operate it.  It seemed best to nap on and off – and watch the dragonfly buzz past the neighbor's window

Dark inside and light outside –

It seems that the neighbors didn't fill the hummingbird feeders. Drat.

From the office window, the Griffith Park Observatory just sits there, off in the distance –

Just below the observatory even the artist-neighbor is out and about –

To the left, empty houses –

No fetching young lasses sunning at the pool below my window –

But this phenylephrine hydrochloride is good stuff.  One thinks of David Hockney. 

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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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