I am enjoying a short hiatus from my "Photo A Day" blog and am showing you a few of my favorite posts from the last year and a half. I'll be back on the job with new photos from London and Portugal in a couple weeks.
Reprise: Fresh
I am enjoying a short hiatus from my "Photo A Day" blog and am showing you a few of my favorite posts from the last year and a half. I'll be back on the job with new photos from London and Portugal in a couple weeks.
Reprise: Magic Grove
Reprise: Remembering Mom
I am enjoying a short hiatus from my "Photo A Day" blog and am showing you a few of my favorite posts from the last year and a half. I'll be back on the job with new photos from London and Portugal in a couple weeks.
Reprise: Harley
I am enjoying a short hiatus from my "Photo A Day" blog and am showing you a few of my favorite posts from the last year and a half. I'll be back on the job with new photos from London and Portugal in a couple weeks.
06-01-10 Reprise: Helping Hand
I am enjoying a short hiatus from my "Photo A Day" blog and am showing you a few of my favorite posts from the last year and a half. I'll be back on the job with new photos from London and Portugal in a couple weeks.
Reprise: A Private Moment
I am enjoying a short hiatus from my "Photo A Day" blog and am showing you a few of my favorite posts from the last year and a half. I'll be back on the job with new photos from London and Portugal in a couple weeks.
Reprise: Chicago Skyline
I am enjoying a short hiatus from my "Photo A Day" blog and am showing you a few of my favorite posts from the last year and a half. I'll be back on the job with new photos from London and Portugal in a couple weeks.
Reprise: Stargazer Lilly
I am enjoying a short hiatus from my "Photo A Day" blog and am showing you a few of my favorite posts from the last year and a half. I'll be back on the job with new photos from London and Portugal in a couple weeks.
05-28-10 The Mask of Agamemnon
This is the so-called "Mask of Agamemnon" discovered by Heinrich Schliemann, the German adventurer and archaeologist. It was discovered in the grave circle on the acropolis of the site of ancient Mycenae in Greece.This golden face was discovered in a royal tomb by Schliemann, who imagined it to be the face of Agamemnon. Agamemnon ruled Mycenae during the time of the Trojan War and was married to Helen (who "launched a 1000 ships"). The tomb the mask was found it is probably not the tomb of Agamemnon, though. This golden object and many others are housed in the Archaeological Museum in Athens. It is well worth the visit if you are in Athens.
Motion Blur
One criteria almost all of my photos need to satisfy is that they have to be "sharp." In photography that means that they need to be properly focused and that the shutter speed needs to be set so that the subject isn't blurred.But sometimes I break the rule. This photograph is an example. I intentionally set the a low shutter speed and then I moved the camera by following the bicyclist as he moved across my field of view. In this particular case, I knew that blurring - both of the bike and of the background - would lend a feeling of motion to the photo.Canon 5DII 1/10s f/13.0 ISO100 58mm
The Copyist
Most art museums will allow certfied artists to set up easels and make copies of paintings. Here an artist makes two simultaneous copies of da Vinci's "Virgin and Child" in the Alte Pinakothek museum in Munich, Germany. Why do they make these high quality copies? I don't know, other than that they make nice gifts.