Monster Ru

Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Spent the last 4 days in London, and went to several exhibitions. really glad i went to this one, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year at the National History Museum. i actually went to the British Tate, wanting to see the Turner Whistler Monet exhibition, but i didn't have the £10 to get in and i couldn't find a bloody ATM anywhere from the tube station to the museum. and i really didn't want to charge £10 to my credit card. it seemed silly.

i desperately wanted to get away from the crowd in the museum and the lure of having a cigarette in the light rain outside made me give up the exhibition. (yes, i do enjoy being out in the rain!) i guess i was really lucky - it all worked out as i would not have gone to the NHM to see the "Wildlife" exhibition if not for all these factors! i guess i can live without seeing 19C art, even if i really quite like Turner's paintings.

this shot of the swans is my favourite one. i'm not terribly fond of swans - blame that on the ill-behaved ones we have at the Botanic Gardens! but this shot really moved me. i guess it doesn't take much to remind us how insignificant we are in the grand scale of things, and just how vast the natural world is. this shot brought to mind many things, including what happened on 26 Dec '04.

anyway, i'm really glad the photographer (Ilkka Niskanen, Finland) took such a wonderful shot. kind of reminds me of the film Hero too.










this one made me laugh my head off!
also went to the Lee Miller exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, and the whole time, i was obsessing about the blackness of black.

posted by 儒 @ 04:47