The Glenbow Museum at 1.4

 

I recently made a trip The Glenbow Museum here in Calgary and once again brought along my 50mm 1.4 lens and left it at 1.4. It was the last day of the Real Life exhibit by Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner which included a video shot entirely in an Ikea and the main attraction, three extremely realistic sculptures of an old woman in bed, a newborn baby, and a baby's head. The amount of realism in the three was incredible but the scale of these sculptures was just as fascinating, the old woman was roughly the size of an infant, the newborn baby was about 12 feet long and the baby's head was 9 feet high!

We decided to leave the Real Life exhibit for last and ended up spending a lot of time in the Asia exhibit. I hadn't been to the Glenbow since junior high and when we finally finished exploring every section three hours had flown by and it was finally time to see the Real Life exhibit we had left for last. Claire and I headed back down to the second floor and just before entering the exhibit I saw the dreaded "No Photos Allowed" sign. I had been looking forward to getting tons of photos of these sculptures all day and wasn't leaving without getting some sort of footage of these amazing sculptures. So with my camera at my hip I began recording a video and managed to get some pretty bad footage of the exhibit.

Head over here to watch it in HD but don't blame me if you get motion sick. 

You can find all of the photo's I took of the trip either here in the Photography section or check out my flickr stream. 

Levin