Your Daily-ish Photo (What Happens in the Purple Room? Edition)

So, as these posts aren't exactly daily anymore, a slight change in the title (the -ish ending is ever so versatile and useful).

And whatever happens under that purple light inside the 'motor clinic', can't imagine it being all that nice.

I'm thinking the scene in there is either Lynch-ian, or Tarantino-esque, but I could be wrong, I'll leave it up to you, dear readers, to decide what's happening in the purple room

In the purple room...
	there's probably a gimp being brought out, right now
	a dwarf is speaking backwards
	a groovy forgotten 70s hit is playing as someone loses an ear
	there's a man huffing NO2 while extolling the virtues of Pabst, Blue Ribbon
	nothing untoward, dramatic or creepy is happening, darnit
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Your Daily Photo (Let's Do the Timewarp Again Edition)

Not a bad place for a hearty repast, breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Your Daily Photo (And If You Stare At This for 15 Minutes a Day for a Month, You Too Will Be Famous Edition)

Noticed you can embed slideshows, so thought I'd give it a try, don't know if that will bring load times to a screeching halt, hopefully not, I haven't noticed any problems even with all the large pictures I tend to post lately. Seems to work fine on all my computers at home, even the older ones. Regarding the photo above, given the placement of the Warhol Marilyn poster, it's obviously supposed to be Warhol depicted on the left, but to me it looks more like a white haired Shemp Howard.

Your Daily Photo (First Day, New Lens Edition)

Yesterday was the first day with a new lens. Picked up the DX 'prime' lens Nikon put out recently. Having wider aperture settings available makes a difference, check out the shot illuminated solely by weak sodium street lights below

Do not attempt a similar shot unless you have steady hands, that's a 1/15th of a second exposure hand held, cause that's how I roll.

The last shot above is of Dolores Restaurant. I think it shows how having a shallow depth of field (the trade off when using a wider aperture) can be utilized in creating interesting compositions. The lights are from various neon signs they have in the windows, and I had to move around quite a bit to find just the right spot where each area was lit in a different hue.

Here's the rest of the flickr set. I walked three miles uphill to take these pics, the least you could do is watch a slideshow of them.

(OK, so it was more of a saunter, and while my end point was indeed higher in elevation than my beginning point, the grade was very shallow, but still, 3 miles, uphill, through the mean streets of West LA and deep into 'Little Osaka' after night fall)