[Leica] Nathan's PAD 28/12/2018: a day in Madrid with my daughter

[Tina Manley]

"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.
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> http://www.pbase.com/image/168606980     I have balanced the color yet,
> just pulled it out of the files.
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> Tina
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> On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 5:07 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
> wrote:
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>> 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 Sofía. 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.
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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 Sofía, 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
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>> We spent 3 hours or more at the Reina Sofía, 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
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>> Nathan Wajsman
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