[Photos] British Museum

[dancefloorlandmine]

Back in October, valkyriekaren was at a loose end in London, and so pir and I joined her at the British Museum. I took my EOS-400D and pir took his G9 (with monopod, which resulted in some interesting discussion with the security -
Guard: "Is that a tripod?"
pir: "No, it's a monopod."
Guard: "You're not allowed to use tripods, because they trip people up."
pir: "But it's a monopod. It's only got one leg, so it won't trip anyone up."
Guard: "You're not allowed tripods"
Guard2: "It's a monopod. Only one leg. It's fine.")

We had a wander around the entrance gallery, and then headed up to China and India. The Museum staff deserve credit for the polished state of their cases - but it did make for some challenging reflections. Also, possibly the first time that I'd been since they roofed over the central court, which is just daft (me not going, not roofing over the courtyard). And then we headed off for food.

Here is the gallery of the better(ish) photos from the Museum.


The courtyard roof








Yamantaka Vajrabhairava, manifestation of Bodhisattva of knowledge opposed to evil and death


Hell Money, used for making offerings to the underworld for the souls of relatives


Shamanistic statue of laquer


In the Chinese garden


Bamboo in the Chinese garden


Philosopher's rock in the Chinese garden

Comments

[pir.livejournal.com]

Who? me? :)

Unfortunately it doesn't work, people argue anyway. When I was in the V&A taking pictures a few months ago they still wouldn't let me use the monopod which I'm sad about, meant I had far more trouble taking many pictures in low light.

I think in future I'll take my teenytiny tripod as well as the monopod (the tiny one is good for taking pictures through glass cases as well as in general).

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

in future I'll take my teenytiny tripod
Ah, but that is a tripod - "people could trip over it" ...

[pir.livejournal.com]

:)

Mostly they don't notice that one, since I'm normally using it against a wall or against the glass.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sneaky!

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I'd like it noted that I have resisted making any jokes about tripods or size thereof.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Noted. [grin]

[pir.livejournal.com]

No comment :)

[solace-aderyn.livejournal.com]

How about a Gorilla?

[pir.livejournal.com]

I've got one and don't particularly like it. It's not solid/stable enough for using under pressure against a wall or glass and if you wrap it around something you'll usually still get harmonic motion in the tripod.

The two small ones that I've got and like are a Manfrotto tabletop which is great for using against vertical glass with my G9 and a noname cheapass more traditional tiny tripod.