Le Penseur. Originally called The Poet, this statue represents Dante and first appeared, much smaller, in Rodin’s brilliant The Gates of Hell. In Rodin’s own words: he is not a dreamer; he is a creator.
He now sits in the Musée Rodin; a fantastic museum in the heart of Paris. One thing that I learned about myself on that trip is that the thought of seeing famous sculpures really excited me — David, in Florence; The Thinker, in Paris; Aphrodite of Milos, in the Louvre. I was not disappointed.
I stood, feeling small in front of these iconic works, stunned, awed. Knowing of them my entire life, I now knew them. It was significant and profound.
I used both Mill Colour and the image filters in Pastebot to desaturate and add contrast to this photo.
I used Pano to take this shot of the courtyard and entrance to the Musée du Louvre.
It is a magnificent space and I spent quite a long time wandering around there looking at the pyramids, the Musée itself and the hundreds of statues that are set into its sides. The whole place is just encredible.
And that’s just the outside.
Pano for stitching, Mill Colour for black and white.
“We’ll never have another day like this one as long as we live”, John F Kennedy
Sitting only 100 metres from where JFK stood and looked at the Brandenburger Tor and, at that time, two year old Berlin wall, Museum The Kennedys has an amazing collection of photos and momentos from his life.
The famous speech, however, did not happen here but at the Rathaus Schöneberg which became West Berlin’s city hall after the city was divided.
Black and white conversion with Mill Colour.
