[Leica] Re: Tate Modern gallery, London

[smcj35 at yahoo.com (Colin J)]

Adam Bridge wrote:
> 
> I very much enjoyed your exploration of the
> Tate Modern Gallery.
> Combined with the images of the Millennium
> Bridge (which I'm convinced
> looks better the farther away you are - say
> Pluto for example) it's a
> good series that makes me want to add it to my
> list of places to go
> Real Soon Now.
> 
> I especially like the symmetrical work you did
> on the bridge although
> I have issues with its designer's choice of
> surfaces, at least from
> the images I have seen. Of course I don't have
> to live with it or pay
> for it so I'm just an idiot from the Left Coast
> with an untutored
> opinion!
> 
> Thank you for posting and sharing.


Adam,

Thank you for your kind words.  Both the Tate
Modern Gallery and Millennium Bridge are well
worth a visit if you are in London.

The Tate Modern is housed on what was formerly an
electric power station.  It is a huge building
and allows spectacularly large exhibitions to be
mounted.  The many large white styrene blocks
shown in three of the photos form a single
exhibit and it was fascinating to watch people
looking at it from within the exhibit as well as
from above.

The Millennium Bridge is an unusual design, aimed
at reducing visual impact to a minimum.  The
architects kept it very, very low, which is why
it is difficult to photograph well.  

When I get my darkroom working my first task will
be to print the bridge photos and I expect to
greatly enhance them compared with the slightly
crude minilab scans I posted.  I also have a
Nikon scanner LS-5000ED on order and this will
improve the quality of my posted scans.

On the day I took the shots of the bridge, the
weather was cold and murky with heavy, driving
rain.  Because of that, the surfaces people walk
on were saturated with water and very reflective.
 I tried to use that (in the shot taken looking
across the bridge deck) to suggest the structure
was floating in the air.  In a way, it is.

I am sorry for the delay in replying to your
comments.  I rely on my life partner, Carol, to
type my postings to LUG as my English is not yet
good enough. I made a draft reply but did not ask
Carol to finish it.  I am sorry.

Thank you again for your interest and kind words,

Colin


                
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