Travel Album: Art museums

When I visit any city in the northern part of the world I usually head straight to the art museums. There's always an aha moment with something. Works that I've overlooked in books suddenly leap off the wall and come alive.  In Barcelona and Paris I took in a lot of Picasso, but my real wow experience was at the Fundació Joan Miró. His work suddenly all made complete sense, and the building itself enhances it. It was the most spiritual experience I had on the trip - despite all the cathedrals I visited.

Travel Album: Cathedrals

The other day I finally got our photos developed from a trip we took to France and Spain in 2005. Shocking - clearly I'm not a scrap-booker at heart. Anyway, while going through the pics I started thinking about how I photograph places, things, experiences compared to how I sketch them. I'm doing a similar thing with each in that I'm working directly from reality and attempting to capture it in some way. So, a new project for me is to do some visual comparisons, just to see.  Here's my first attempt. (By the way, some of the photos are my husband's as we share a camera, but it's impossible to tell who took what. We both always claim to have taken the best pics.)