London Science Museum, August 30th
The London Science Museum, like most museums, doesn’t have an anti-camera policy. Art galleries on the other hand, even ones holding our “national treasures”, have men in balconies armed with rifles ready to blow the heads off anyone who points a light-sensitive recording device anywhere near their copyrighted works of art. This is one of the many quite refreshing things about the Science Museum. For example, you’re welcome to bring your own lunch and eat it in the many areas between galleries. Most edutainment centres would have a deal with their catering contractors banning such things but not here. But back to the photographs. I’d seen a couple of people taking photos with film SLR cameras along with the usual mass of digital compacts. I guess I notice these things more these days. Struck me it’d be neat to do that with some grainy black and white film to try and capture the exhibits as they would have been seen back in the day so I may do that at our own museums in Birmingham. And it turns out there’s a Science Museum Flickr group which looks fairly popular and active, not just with photo of the exhibits but of people interacting with them. That’s nice to see. I bet there isn’t one for the National Portrait Gallery where I was once stopped from photographing their escalator.
Perhaps this group will accept your escalator picture.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/canttakepictureshere/
Time for a field trip?
Heh – looks like out own Steve / TheWishy had the same idea with the b/w film!
I’d rather be a janitor in the Science Museum than in the Natural History Museum. Climbing around that airplane with a duster would be more fun than sitting on some replica of a dinosaur! I wouldn’t want tobe janitor in the National Portrait Gallery.
So, dp, you want to be a janitor then?
Could do. But, as I said, it’s the setting that would make the difference.
I’d rather have an excuse to pretend to be a dinosaur-rider than a pilot.
It would be fun, sure, to imagine piloting one’s own brontosaurus through morning traffic. But dinsoaurs are said to be dumber than chickens. So I can’t imagine that my own personal dinosaur would be smart enough to do the tricks your average stallion or elephant is capable of.
Pete – The Black and White film was purely down to practicality. Its bloody dark in places there, even with primes wide open!