Walk to the Guggenheim

MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
edited July 20, 2011 in Street and Documentary
Walked to the Guggenheim museum this past Thursday with the hopes of showing my family the museum and taking some photos of the remarkable architecture.

Sadly, I was met with this sign at the entrance.
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I decided to try and make the best of things.
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At least the gift shop was open and afforded this view.
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One last parting shot.
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I'll need to return on my next trip. I'll try to remember not to go on Thursdays. :dunno
Mitch
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  • ZanottiZanotti Registered Users Posts: 1,411 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2011
    Bummer! (Nice shots though!)
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2011
    Love the building shots! Great angles and clean thumb.gif. Sorry you didn't get to hang out in the museum, though - bummer indeed!
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  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2011
    divamum wrote: »
    Love the building shots! Great angles and clean thumb.gif. Sorry you didn't get to hang out in the museum, though - bummer indeed!

    Thanks, DM. We'll be back. I'm not much on architectural photography, so at least I got to play a little.
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2011
    HI there,
    For not being much of an architect photographer, I do like the last three very much, I've been trying sunflair shots for a while without success.
    I am waiting to see some human interaction though :)
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  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2011
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    HI there,
    For not being much of an architect photographer, I do like the last three very much, I've been trying sunflair shots for a while without success.
    I am waiting to see some human interaction though :)


    Thanks, Liz.

    For the flare, I just took the shade off my lens. ne_nau.gif
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2011
    Too bad you didn't walk about 10 blocks north, the Frick Collection is hands-down one of the best museums in NY.
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited July 19, 2011
    Andy wrote: »
    Too bad you didn't walk about 10 blocks north, the Frick Collection is hands-down one of the best museums in NY.
    15524779-Ti.gif. Still, you managed to capture the essence of the architecture. Personally, I've always thought that the NY Guggenheim is a terrible place to hang art--the building overpowers anything you put in it. It would make a great aquarium, though. mwink.gif
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  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2011
    Andy wrote: »
    Too bad you didn't walk about 10 blocks north, the Frick Collection is hands-down one of the best museums in NY.

    Actually, we continued on to the Jewish Museum of New York and saw the most incredible exhibit about the Cone sisters. Two women from Baltimore who amassed an incredible collection of art after they went to Europe and befriended a few failing artists you may have heard of - Matisse and Picasso.

    http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/conecollection
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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited July 19, 2011
    Mitchell wrote: »
    Actually, we continued on to the Jewish Museum of New York and saw the most incredible exhibit about the Cone sisters. Two women from Baltimore who amassed an incredible collection of art after they went to Europe and befriended a few failing artists you may have heard of - Matisse and Picasso.

    http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/conecollection

    The Cone Sisters' collection is a featured (and large) part of the Baltimore Museum of Art, housed on the Johns Hopkins Campus in Baltimore. They have an amazing "interactive room" about the sisters in addition to a great deal of their collection - if you're ever down this way, it's worth a trip. And the Museums in Baltimore are now FREE, which makes it an extra nice family outing!
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  • lizzard_nyclizzard_nyc Registered Users Posts: 4,056 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2011
    Mitchell wrote: »
    Thanks, Liz.

    For the flare, I just took the shade off my lens. ne_nau.gif

    I swear I think it's my Zuiko (Olympus) lenses. They don't really produce flair--I've tried.
    Liz A.
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  • MitchellMitchell Registered Users Posts: 3,503 Major grins
    edited July 20, 2011
    lizzard_nyc wrote: »
    I swear I think it's my Zuiko (Olympus) lenses. They don't really produce flair--I've tried.

    Slap a cheap UV filter on your good lens if you want some flare. Not a recommendation I make every day.ne_nau.gif
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