Sunday Funday at the Michener Art Museum

I became a member of the Michener Art Museum last November and have only managed to get there three times since then.   I was hoping to go more.  This visit, I brought my sister as my guest and I think she enjoyed it as much as I did.  It was a beautiful blue sky day.  Not too hot and not too cool, so we took some time to enjoy the outside sculptures.  Being a wordy, you can imagine how much I enjoyed what I am calling the LETTER TREE. 

 

 

 

Not so easy to photograph images with the light from behind so had to do a little work to brighten the tree and not blow out the sky on this one.  Windows Live is a great place to start.  All I had to do was work with the sliders in the exposure section and I was able to keep my sky blue, clouds mostly white and lighten up the tree.  I tried this image with and without a polarizing filter and decided to keep the filtered image.  In fact, I have now decided it would be best to remember keep the polarizing filter in my bag on bright sunny days. 

Sunday Funday

Finally had the opportunity to take advantage of my membership to the Michener Museum and what a joy it was to share my visit with my good friend Kathy.    Last time we were there we were able to vote for the Peoples Choice of the permanent pieces and this time we were able to see the winners.
We were also able to enjoy a wonderful  exhibit, Where Children Sleep: Photographs by James Mollison.  The photographer ingeniously matched portraits of children with pictures of their bedrooms.  The diversity of the children was eye popping.  From a little American pageant girl with a bedroom full of award ribbons and crowns, to an unnamed Romanian boy whose room was a field with a mattress in it that he shared with his parents.  Some of the exhibits in the museum have signs indicating NO PHOTOGRAPHS.  Although, I have seen many a museum visitor ignore those signs, I never do...I believe this was from the exhibit, In a Relationship: Art, Science and Medicine. There was not a sign in the room where this image was and I just loved the idea, color, lines and composition so pulled out my Iphone so I could share it and perhaps entice you to go visit the museum.

See link above as I took this pic of someone else's image