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How green was my Griffith valley? After they sprayed it with gunk, very. I didn’t even notice the helicopter in the photo until I downloaded it!
Here I give a shoutout to my adorable little camera I got in August, the Panasonic DMC-TZ1. I never did find the blue one, which I wanted so badly. In fact, because it was already so OLD in camera lifetimes (over a year), I only found three of this model in the whole city! I ended up going to Best Buy in Westwood for the only new one in a box they had. Great deal for $150. (Also had to get memory card and battery, of course, and also a camera bag later that I picked up at a yard sale in my usual serendipity.)
Fancy camera composition. Griffith Park, the 5, and Burbank. Notice how the tree branch follows the curve of the hill. Now that’s composition, baby!
A flower. I made it arty, with added grain.
Everything is so tiny. Teeny-tiny little memory card that I was afraid to touch, buttons, etc. Except for the long lens, which is 10x and is a longer lens than even my binoculars, and I have several. So much fun not having to wonder if I have any film left.
I don’t think it’s as good as my old (rare) Nikon, no. But where is that? In the closet. This camera is next to, or in, my purse.
Picasa is the best photo-editing program I’ve ever tried. So intuitive, fast, easy, and it’s free! I haven’t even tried the photo program that came with the camera, or used any of my other graphic programs, of which I have a bunch. Graphic software programs might be the worst waste of time in our lifetimes. ™
I have a flicker account, but haven’t tried to upload my photos to it. I guess I’m a little shy about comments people make there, too. But I am a tizzy there! (those special people who own Panasonic TZ-1 or TZ-2.)
Here are a few I like so far. The first two I took last month when I stuck my head out the window (have to sort of lean a little) to see Griffith Park and noticed this bright poison green all over the hills. I was upset at first, and wondered if the park was laying down gunk to stop possible erosion, should we get any of that falling water I’ve heard about. But I found out more about the green here (that was my first question, what’s that green stuff.), here , where she says it is hydromulch and here. The official park blog, which only has 4 posts in 6 months, yet appears to be from Jon Kirk Mukri, head honcho of all LA parks, explains that this is all very natural good stuff. Like you could eat it without harm. Some places have reported that there are seeds in it, but there aren’t. It’s just to stabilize the soil. So they say. But if it seals the soil, how will any seeds EVER grow in it? Was LA too cheap to spring for the seeds?
Look for TWO birds here!
Moon eclipse. From a moon watcher.
Sexy Geri.
Donna Barstow
Griffith Park is the 2nd biggest park in the US, and I'm just the person to investigate it! I've lived here for over 25 years. I was part of the PROS Committee in Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and am on the Housing & Tenants Rights Committee in the Silver Lake NC. I'm in the LA Press Club, and you can find some of my articles in the LA Weekly and the Los Feliz Ledger. I'm a cartoonist for Parade Magazine, The New Yorker, LA Times, Slate, & most major media. Questions and contacts welcome.
One Comment
El Hosni
The landscape looks very nice, the pictures too! Yes, I had to thank the erosion. The area where I come from, is also strongly affected by erosion. But otherwise the pictures are beautiful – by nature!