Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Not" - not balanced the color. Tina On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 1:46 PM Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > I enjoy all of your photos of you with your son and daughter. They remind > me of us, many years ago. Here are Tim and Laura with Hieronymous Bosch in > 1998. Somewhere I have photos of Kip and Cathy in front of the same > painting in 1976. The kids are hypnotized by The Garden of Earthly > Delights. > > http://www.pbase.com/image/168606980 I have balanced the color yet, > just pulled it out of the files. > > Tina > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 5:07 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > >> Yesterday my daughter and I spent the day in Madrid. The main purpose of >> the trip was to visit the two great art museums, the Prado and the Museo >> Reina Sof?a. Apart from that, we were going to have a good lunch and enjoy >> the city a bit. Our stay in Madrid was a total of 12 hours, and thanks to >> the high-speed train that covers the 450 km between Alicante and Madrid in >> 2:15-2:30 hours (depending on the number of stops along the way), it is a >> trip easily done as a day trip. Five images. >> >> It is 7 a.m. and Monica and I are on board the train, departing at 7:15. >> I had brought breakfast for Monica, knowing that she would probably not >> have eaten at home before I picked her up there at 6:30: >> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-c68FHVP/A >> >> Arriving at Madrid?s Atocha station at 9:35 (yes, that was the station >> where islamic terrorists killed 192 people back in 2004), we headed for >> the >> Prado, about 20 minutes walk, so just perfect since it opens at 10. We >> were >> there mainly to see the huge bicentenary exhibition, which includes many >> juxtapositions of old and more modern interpretations of the same motif, >> like here. What made me take this picture is the amusing way in which the >> man is examining the artwork. I have no idea what he was looking for: >> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-f4qSL96/A >> >> We then went to the section of the Prado that contains the Dutch/Flemish >> masters. I was especially keen for Monica to see the works of Hieronymous >> Bosch, an amazing painter who lived 500 years ago. Here is Monica looking >> at his triptych, Adoration of the Magi, from 1494: >> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-m7msQq9/A >> >> We spent more than 3 hours at the Prado, so it was time for lunch. For >> that, we headed to Madrid?s central square, Sol, and a nearby Cuban >> restaurant which I visited several times and which never disappoints: >> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-3cg6TLQ/A >> >> After lunch, we walked around Madrid for a couple of hours, including the >> beautiful Retiro park, and then we headed back to the Atocha >> neighbourhood, >> this time to visit the Museo Reina Sof?a, Madrid?s main modern art museum. >> The main attraction there is Picasso?s Guernica, but there is also an >> extensive collection of works by Dali and other important 20th century >> artists, and this time there was also a huge exhibition of art created in >> Paris in the two decades following WW II, by French and foreign artists >> who >> made their home in the city. Monica is a delight to take to such >> places?she >> looks at the works thoroughly and really takes her time. When she find a >> work particularly interesting, she takes a photo of the painting and the >> artist?s name so that she can research him/her on the net later: >> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-wPZTthQ/A >> >> We spent 3 hours or more at the Reina Sof?a, and then it was time to walk >> back to Atocha and take the last train home, at 9:15 p.m. I dropped off >> Monica at her place around midnight, tired but satisfied. >> >> Cheers, >> Nathan >> >> >> Nathan Wajsman >> >> Alicante, Spain >> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> >> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu >> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws < >> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ < >> http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> >> >> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator < >> http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> >> >> YNWA >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley > <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html> > > > -- Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com tina-manley.artistwebsites.com http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley <http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html>