Leica M4-2 at Smithsonian

[rgeorge911]

Here are a few shots I enjoyed from my weekend trip to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum:


Untitled-49_Ice-2.jpg by reed_flickr, on Flickr


Untitled-50_Ice-2.jpg by reed_flickr, on Flickr


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Leica M4-2, 50mm f2 Summicron M, Fuji 400 print film

Reed

[LarryD]

Oh OK I thought they had one of those old things on display there. Real nice shots.

[Julio1fer]

The second B&W is a great shot. One of the best RF ever, well used.

[shadowfox]

Reed, that second photo is pretty cool

Summicron 50mm is the easiest lens to coax a creamy background. 
I have one in R-mount and I use it on an EOS 1n.

[lesged]

Reed,

I like both the museum shots a lot. You always challenge difficult angles and end up with rewarding results. It's one of your strong suits in the photo game.

Is the third photo a parent and child art class in the same museum? Could that girl possibly be your daughter? If so, she has grown like a reed.

Believe it or not writing "reed" came automatically, it was a few blinks of my eyes before I realized there was an un-intententional double entendre

[jamesmck]

Very nice, Reed (especially #2).  There's no such thing as a bad photo of Christine, is there?

[rgeorge911]

Yes, that is Christine, Les.  And, she is growing like a reed... It's in a lab in the museum with an exhibit called "Written in Bone."  In it, kids get to handle real human bones, and solve a mystery.  In the station she's pictured at, they measure a femur to determine the approximate overall height of the "victim."  They also examine the pelvis to determine the sex, the teeth to approximate age, etc.

And no, James, there aren't any bad pictures of Christine (or Yukiko in the background, for that matter).   

Reed

[jake]

That's such a cool exhibit for kids! Museums are such "hands-off" places, it is hard to communicate that the sorts of things that go on in a museum could be something that children could do when they grow up. Hard to turn the hands back on, so to speak, once they have been turned off.

That second shot is nice too. Something about the patterning in the image.

[radiophoto]

And since nobody else has mentioned that you shot them in existing light, let me throw in my admiration at these shots that you achieved in existing light!  I think all of them are wonderful, Reed.

You lucky man, to have such a lovely (wife and) daughter.  Only sons for me, to my everlasting premeditated consternation.  But they are good-lookin'.  Well, maybe one of 'em.    But I digress.

Thanks for sharing these!