Friday, July 20, 2012

Field Trip: Metropolitan Museum





The flower arrangements are always astounding, dramatic and exotic. You could go to the museum for them alone.


Of course, on a vacation-time Thursday there were a million billion people there, and most of them were taking photos on their cell phones --just like me. Never quite know what to look at, since if you look at everything you get major  sensory overload.


So looked at the modern photos exhibit, then retreated to the Spanish courtyard


to see the young man playing music.


Such a pretty young saint! You can look through the porthole in her chest to discover that she is a reliquary and has real bits of bone inside.....



No one there for an instant.


Then looking down at the hall


and wondering which particular treasures were absorbed that day.



18 comments:

  1. These photos show pretty much everything I love, and miss, about cities.

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  2. So many people keen on seeing art! Wonderful. Looks more like a railway station in terms of people on the go. Fun effects and intriguing points of view in your shots. And reliquaries fascinate me: They are so weird!

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  3. Thanks for excursion! At us in the Hermitage always too there is a lot of to people!

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  4. Beautiful Museum.
    Wonderful photos.
    They remind me of Roberts paintings. So many people unconnected.
    I love the spectacular flower arrangement.

    cheers, parsnip

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  5. Probably my favorite place in New York. You could spend a whole week of vacation there and still not see everything.

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  6. the bust with a peep hole is so amazingly awesome!

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  7. I just love all these photos and the clever way you have taken some from above. Thanks for your kind words over at my place.

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  8. I swear I will get there one day, if not for anything else - the flower arrangements. Astounding.

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  9. I love that museum
    your shots are great and the framing is perfect

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  10. Thanks, loved the tour. Another place in NYC that is on my list. Someday...

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  11. Haven't been here in ages. Enjoyed your photos.

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  12. Once again I enjoyed your photo's they bring back happy memories.

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  13. This is truely incredible series of shots that remind me of the time I slave myself across the museum to take photographs.

    You got the busy feel captured all on the camera for sure!

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  14. Just to be inside that architecture would be amazing -
    same for Musee D'orsee. The old train station looked like something from the film Hugo - not to mention the Rousseau's, Van Gogh's and Lautrecs. Good thing they have a cafe on every level.. sustenance was required.

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  15. So cool, so green, so exactly as one feels within an exhibition. You somehow capture both the excitement and the inner silence. Fantastic!

    Wish I was there!

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  16. I've not been to the Metropolitan for a long, long time, so this was fun, Elizabeth! Big city galleries are often sensory overload. It's a pity your can't rent a room and just camp out for a week or so to catch everything in these places...LOL! Happy Weekend ((HUGS))

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  17. That port hole in the chest is interesting and different.

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