![]() "This is entitled 'Inside the Camera'-which is where it was created, inside the room-size camera obscura located in The Photographers' Gallery in Central London. ![]() In the submissions there were a number of creative departures from the conventional idea of a museum-an "old village" museum of historical structures (Ronny Nilsen), a permanently docked warship (Kristoffer Tripplaar), the exterior of an alternative museum on the streets of an old town (Ray Maines), even the interior of a huge freight elevator at SFMoMA (Saul Rosenfield). The kids in the lower left, putting their hands on the glass are endearing and, if I’m honest, a little bit creepy." What I love about this shot is that it reminds me of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000,' with phone-toting tourists standing in for Joel, Crow, and Tom Servo. The giant tank held a variety of fish and mid-sea invertebrates, including a young Great White Shark. "This is in the pelagic pool viewing area at The Monterey Bay Aquarium and the odd fish you see is an Ocean Sunfish, or Mola Mola. Photo by Maggie Osterberg, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. ArtPrize has continued to grow and evolve." Any visitor could vote via the internet for their favorite piece. Offering the largest cash prize in the art world, the venue, downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, was open to any artist. Launched in 2009 as an experiment, Art Prize was designed to be a bottom-up rather than top-down art contest. "Two of the potential voters in Art Prize 2010. ![]() Photo by Nick Van Zanten, Grand Haven, Michigan, USA. Photo by Sergio Bartelsman, Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia. November 16th, 2018-A wall being painted in readiness for a new exhibition at the Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, B.C. Photo by John Denniston, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Taken at the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a Fujifilm X100F." And no matter how many times I go, there’s always something interesting there. "Being a local, I usually go to this museum a couple of times a month. Photo by Leon Droby, Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA. This is a particular favorite of mine Stelios. I have it printed and framed in my living room." I like the soft light and the gestures of the children. I was paying particular attention to the sun. I remember I was determined to get a picture I liked that day for no particular reason, just to please myself. I'd been shooting for years with nothing but a rangefinder and a 35mm so that was an all-new setup for me. "This is a picture I took in 2015 outside the British Museum in London, with my new to me then (secondhand) DSLR. Photo by Stelios Karouzakis, London, United Kingdom. And maybe one guy on the opposite side, just to the left of the end of the DSLR lens. Except the guy in front just to the left of the painting. A docent told me were lucky to arrive so late so that the crowd was much thinner than normal. When we turned the corner into the exhibit space we were met by this. Given the short amount of time we had we headed directly for the Mona Lisa. "We were running late one day in Paris and decided to visit the Louvre about half an hour before closing. Photo by David Mackenzie, Bedford, New Hampshire, USA. :-) Shot with a Sony a6000 with 16–50mm kit zoom I bought from my dear friend Juan Buhler." My daugher Margarita loves museums, but that day she'd had enough. " I took this photo a couple of months before your call for work at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes here in Buenos Aires. ![]() Photo by Albano García, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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