Portrait of Kendra
This isn’t a Photoshop manipulation and I’m guessing there’s only a small chance you are under the influence of psychotropic drugs or absinthe. Kendra is a real person and this scene is exactly what the camera saw. The unreality is due to the fact that I am photographing Kendra’s distorted reflection in a chrome sculpture [...]
A Little Prayer
For the first time in two years, I have updated my blog’s look. I’ve been contemplating a change for a while but fear of the unknown kept me at bay. When you change themes in blogs, all of the photos have to be resized, hopefully by an automated process. And who knows what you’ll get? [...]
Saving His Skin
I took this photo several years ago when I led a Watertown High School student trip to Rome. We had a free afternoon and one of my students and I made the trip to the church of San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome. This church is remarkable in many ways but I was captured by [...]
The African Gallery
Just beyond the pottery featured in yesterday’s post I encountered this scene. Maybe it’s not at special as I think it is, but I liked how the human on the left complemented the figure on the right. It results in symmetry that would be absent with the standing woman. [smugbuy gallery="http://scottshephardphoto.smugmug.com/PhotoBlog/A-Picture-A-Day-01-2012/21097259_fhXzjV"]
Fixed Orbits
In this case I was confronted by this collection of pottery at the beginning of the museum’s African collection. The spherical shape and the brilliant arrangement of these pots reminded me of circling planets. Thus the title of today’s post. [smugbuy gallery="http://scottshephardphoto.smugmug.com/PhotoBlog/A-Picture-A-Day-01-2012/21097259_fhXzjV"]
Another Frank Photo
This isn’t the first time I’ve posted Frank, by the artist Chuck Close. Frank resides in the Minneapolis Institute of Art and I’ve observed that he seems to get around since this is at least the 4th different gallery I remember seeing him in. Frank, incidentally, is a photo-realistic painting done from a photo of [...]
Table & Chairs
This is a room at the Minneapolis Institute of Art that features the design work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The chairs at this dining table don’t look all that comfortable. But they are certainly stylish. I’m guessing that high-heeled shoes share the same quality.
Another Kind of Trinity
I took my Photo/Media students to the Twin Cities last week and one of the stops was the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. While they were wandering on their own, I wandered, too. This glass display case has been part of the Design collection for many years and I have photographed the beautiful glass before. But [...]
Avant Garde
Today’s offering is another art museum interior – this time a shot of some of the work of the “crackpot” leaders of the Modern Art movement as seen at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. I happen to like the crackpots.
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