At the Museum of Natural History

Taken at the American Museum of Natural History, the Ibex was part of

a diorama.

A great image. Well framed (except for the black thing upper right) and beautifully exposed.

Thanks Jamie. My daughter (who appears in the image) runs away whenever the camera comes out so I had about a zillionth of a second to take the shot, camera with manual everything.

i love the deep defocus you get with the big aperture.

Yeah I was lucky it didnt flare, I guess, even though there was very little light.

Great shot, great mood. Cheers, Cris.

in the thumbnail she seemed to be looking at a super-super-super-sized cotton boll (that's what the seedpod is called - god bless the internet - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_seed_pod_of_cotton_called).

 

it's a graceful image.

If I lived in the city I'd spend lots of time taking pictures in museums. Glad you still like this one its one of my favorites. Too bad about the impression the icon gives.

 

To me, one of the unfortunate by products of sites like photo.net is this: people tend to click on the thumbnails that look interesting, which means that there is a certain blunt compositional style that has become commonplace, because that is what looks good even when viewed postage stamp size. complex compositional studies get less viewer time because they look random when they're tiny.

 

Oh well.

nuff said.

 

the cotton boll impression isn't negative for me. it's ambiguous and poetic.

Cool shot Dave. You may have already seen this work but David O Holmes has a terrific series in this subject matter.

 

http://portfolio.streetnine.com/amnh/

Wow, what kind of crazy coincidence is that? I never saw these works before. David A Holmes <--> Joseph O Holmes. Looks like the same set of dioramas too. Thanks for the link.