Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Spider!!!


I don't particularly love spiders, they creep me out when they run really fast. This sculpture is outside the National Gallery of Canada (in Ottawa). I was lucky enough to go in and visit their exhibit of British photographs from as early as the 1830's. It was really amazing to me. The earliest ones were daguerreotype, and later dates had photograms.

4 Comments:

Blogger Lea said...

I took the photo with Lensbaby. And I have a new camera --Panasonic GF2. It's so small and fits easily in my purse :) I love it.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 1:03:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Warren T. said...

aaaahhhh! The spider that ate Seattle! :)

Congrats on your GF2! As you know, I have the GF1, and G1 bodies. Dan has the GH2. Welcome to the Micro 4/3 club.

Did you get the 14mm prime lens or 14-42mm with the kit?

--Warren

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 1:10:00 PM PDT  
Blogger dan in marin said...

Lea, great angle, the slant makes it more imposing. I believe we had a very similar sculpture outside the Ferry Bldg in SF for a year or so and then it was returned to the artist. I wonder if it is the same work?

Dan

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 3:23:00 PM PDT  
Blogger Lea said...

I have the 20mm, didn't get the kit lens. I found this article on the spider, the artist is Louise Bourgeois and there are six other similar sculptures.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2005/05/11/ot-maman20050511.html

Oh looks like they were different sculptures but the same artist yeah: http://www.flickr.com/photos/45108119@N00/2163057610/

Good eye! :)

Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 1:27:00 PM PDT  

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