Many years ago I had a photographer friend from Kentucky who thought that photography was just documentation. In part...and only in part, do I think that is true. For example when I think about doing this blog, I want to show what Monique and I are experiencing. In a sense it dictates what type of photos that we take. More subtlely, our intentions, and more subtle yet the manner in which we 'SEE'. So with my second trip to L'Orangerie, I am taking the kind of photos that I wanted to take the first time two years ago. The L'Orangerie houses the immense water lilly patings by Monet. I was struck by how one could become engulfed in this color as background.

Color theorist know that if a color surrounds you, it controls you. I wanted to document that phenomenon relative to visitors

Kent

Inside wall of La Geode

Researcher

Inside the Geode

For those those of you who speak Hindi, I'm sorry, I had to check the disable box.

When I join Monique on some of her conferences, it's usually a chance for me to explore what ever city we happen to be in. This time her conference was held in Paris at the Cite de Science. which is kinda like a museum dedicated to science, math, school tours, imax..etc. Her conference lasted two days. I took two trips to museums in Paris. My first trip I stayed right on the campus of the Cite de Science and went to see a film on Van gogh in a place called the Geode which turned out to be an IMAX inside a geodesic dome. It was Fantastic. Because of her passion for Van Gogh, the woman featured in the film was granted the priviledge of being able to even handle the letters that he had written to his brother Theo. I was granted the priviledge of seeing his paintings up close or small sections blown up forty feet tall and wide.