blow up

There was a wonderful film called "Blow Up" released back in 1966....David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave were two of the main stars....And David Hemmings played a famous photographer who is among other things a very successful Fashion Photographer but takes pictures of all sorts of things, including some scenes in a park one day....And when he goes into his studio dark room to develop the park scenes, he thinks he see's something quite strange and rather scary...A body...And in fact, if memory serves, he thinks he has discovered a murder...It's a wonderful film, very much worth renting...It was directed by Michaelangelo Antonioni (His first English language film) and produced by Sophia Loren's husband Carlo Ponti, who just died a few days ago....It was really a 'great' film and you won't go wrong putting it on your "must see" list, especially because it is such a reflection of the fashion's of the 1960's......

I was thinking about this film because I saw something on the hill across from my house that was interesting, if not mysterious....Here is that hill as another sunset is taking place, and we are looking past that hill towards Century City and the ocean beyond it....You can just barely see across the top of the hill way over to the right a little something....And the only way I could possibly check out what it was, was to 'blow-up' the picture. So, moving in a bit closer we see there is a fence up there on the crest of the hill....in this particular shot you don't see the strange things I saw that are visible in the photograph below, but I did go in closer....
Now here below we see something more.... And isolating these figurs just a little bit more....here they are just a teeny bit closer..... I couldn't make the two figures any bigger without getting it all completely out of focus and "pixelated".....But, don't you find it amazing that people can actually walk up there on that hill, and that they do....?
And here below, on another day, a couple of other people were walking up there.... If I had a better camera, which I hope to get eventually, I could probably get in even closer....something to look forward to in the future...And what is nice to know is, it wasn't like the mystery in "Blow-Up", just people out for a good hike on a good hill....

More To Come.....