Under the Louvre
This is a definite no-no land for tripods, so that made me re-double my efforts to make this shot happen under the glass pyramid of the Louvre.
With the sun in my face, there was no way I could make an HDR out of a single RAW, and I knew I needed seven exposures, from +3 to -3 to make it happen. I ran around in circles to save up some bullet-time, and then I quickly unfurled my RRS tripod. It spun and rotated like the Hellraiser cube until I had it perfectly situated. I took my seven shots as quickly as possible before two security cards came over to get me.
I couldn't Michael-Weston my way out of that one because my French is so bad, so I just slowly folded up my tripod while giving them a knowing grin. I wanted it to be the kind of grin that ate into their souls... but, I think they were just generally annoyed with me and wanted me to hurry the heck up.
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The Millennium Bridge crosses the Thames and terminates here, at the Tate Museum. They don't like you to take photos in here. Heaven forbid someone should make art in a museum.
I mean really... isn't it insulting? Who runs the committee at the Tate that decides, "Oh, we mustn't let people take photos in this part of the museum. They might be making art! What possible reason would they have? Quite nefarious, no doubt!"
Anyway, I find it insulting how these museums treat me like a child. I hope they secretly have somewhat empty lives... and perhaps when they are in some ultra-modern part of the museum and prattling on about the hidden meaning of clump of steel and fluff... that they secretly know they are just spouting a bunch of nonsense in a grandiose effort to placate other fakers around them.
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