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The Herd

            At our gallery of modern art, a very large display consists of thousands of small handmade glass jungle animals by Tiffany Chung.

Todays effort was my third visit to try to get a satisfactory result.

This time I took my small tripod and tucked it as far in my shoulder bag as possible, as I guessed tripods would not be allowed, despite not have any thoughts why it might be so.

Using my policy that is easier to beg forgiveness rather than get approval, I boldly walk in and pulled the tripod out. Every room at GOMA always has a security guard. Today there was a young lady who looked at me and didn't make any immediate move to shoot me. As I set up, another guard arrived and had a quick chat to her, then she came and politely told me I couldn't use the tripod. My futile attempts asking her could she just turn away for a moment fell on deaf ears.

We were pleasant to each other and you can't ask for more than that, so I had no choice but to try some more handhelds.

The problem is, when you have thousands of items closely together, and you don't have sufficient light to close down the aperture to get a wide depth of field, lots of unfocussed content just makes it look busy.

The glass and lights also make it very hard to focus. When I got home, I looked through the disappointing results - take 3, but managed to salvaged a half decent shot after a bit of selective filtering and it is shown down below in comments.

If you look below, you can see on of the rhinos up close and personal.

Abundance Theme - lots of animals

Taken on: March 16, 2013

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Animals

Glass

Art

GOMA

Brisbane

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