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There are dozens of copies of Rodin’s “The Thinker”, but this one in Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen is one of the earliest and was made while Auguste Rodin was still alive.

Posted on March 21st, 2019 under Denmark. Tags: living in copenhagen, museums, Nikon D500, Tokina AT-X 11-20mm F2.8 PRO DX. Comments Off on The Thinker

Stockholm’s Vasa

…the Vasa headed out of Stockholm harbor on its maiden voyage. Less than a mile later it sunk. 330 years passed before it was brought to the surface again. The Vasa Museum is the current resting place where I took these (five) photos (and stitched them into one) last summer.

Posted on August 10th, 2018 under Other. Tags: museums, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D750, photomerge, stockholm, sweden. Comments Off on 390 years ago today…

Parthenon Marbles in the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum

At some point the Elgin Marbles will make their way back to Greece as their presence in the British Museum seems very wrong. At that point, I’m guessing admission to the British Museum will go from free to 30 pounds as they can’t exactly charge people to see stolen property currently.

Today’s photo features marble sculpture created about 2,500 years ago on the Parthenon on the Acropolis of Athens. If you look really closely you can see holes in certain places. These weren’t from destruction in transport. Instead, these are original and were there to hold objects that are now missing like horse bridle, reigns, etc.

Posted on October 4th, 2016 under London. Tags: british museum, museums, Nikon D500, Tokina AT-X 11-20mm F2.8 PRO DX. Comments Off on Elgin Marbles

Rosetta Stone @ British Museum

The largest empire in history “collected” (some would say stole) many significant pieces of history. Then, in the early 1960s, Britain created a law preventing the return of anything in their collections to the various countries of origin. If it’s legal it must be ethical, right?

Anyway, people can come see these items for free so that’s something. The problem is that if you visit, like we did, on a rainy day in early August things can get ridiculously crowded. Picture the Mona-Lisa-in-the-Louvre crowded.

Posted on August 22nd, 2016 under London. Tags: british museum, museums, Nikon D500, Tokina AT-X 11-20mm F2.8 PRO DX. Comments Off on Rosetta Stone

Autumn Morning on Lake Sortedam by Christen Kobke (NY Carlsberg Glyptoteket)

As mentioned yesterday, today we are leaving Copenhagen. Our place, right next to Lake Sortedam, will be missed. I’d like to be close to the lakes again next time, but on a less busy street. I walked, or more often biked, along this lake nearly each of the past 36 days. Although it’s summer, many days looked as gloomy as this fall day in Kobke’s painting from nearly 200 years ago. On those sunny days, between storms, the lakes looked marvelous.

On the surface Copenhagen isn’t changing at all. But the new things do stand out and surprise me when I spend a month here every few years.

So far I’ve posted about 35 photos from this trip. After deleting hundreds of photos, I still have about 4,000 to go.

Posted on July 28th, 2016 under Denmark. Tags: copenhagen, famous danes, living in copenhagen, museums, Nikon D500, Tokina AT-X 11-20mm F2.8 PRO DX. Comments Off on Eternal Copenhagen