The Legion of Honor, Part II

The Legion of Honor is an awesome museum, I highly recommend it, is gret even when you are not into art like me. There were couple expositions of paintings and newspapers from France, I think they'll be over until next month, so if you can go and take a look.

The first thing that you'll see, that meets you in the center of the museum, is an statue of a guy, who of course is naked, (you have to be naked or showing an intimate part of your body to become something artistic) The statue is black, glossy black, pretty cool. We started to watch the rigth side of the museum, that part mainly contained catholic paintings, and a couple of Jesus christ. I was rushing taking pictures, and moving quick around the museum. I didn't even have time to pay attentiong to all the statues, paintings that were really intense. The left side of the museum has an exposition of some mummy. Is pretty cool, you get to see the real mummy and a model of the skull of the mummy showing the reason why he died and so on.

We spent at least an hour and thirty minutes, and through all that time Laura and I walked with a headache. Another reason why I couldn't appreciate more of the things in the museum. We walked out kind of happy that we finally were going home, that alleviated our headache and on top of that the tasty sandwich that we ate also helped. After having part of our digestion done, we walked through the fog. I was tired, my feet hurt and that night I had to work.

The museum was a great experience, and writing about the things that I saw and the ones that impacted me, helped me to find a side of me that I wasn't aware of; that I do like art, specially the type of art that is controversial, unique and the exception to the rule.

In the same way, I really like the pictures that I took. I got some really nice shots, I love my fish eye lense, it has an unique effect which helps you see the world of the picture in a different way.

Our way back wasn't any different, except that we felt the bus ride much more shorter and comfortable.

My favorite painting.

Triumph Daytona 675

We see sport bikes bikes all the time. Sometimes speeding down the highway, cruising around downtown, or simply just parked on the street. Some of them are so nice that we keep walking straight but we kept looking at them, these are the famous neck brakers.

Last weekend I had the chance to finally shoot my friend's bike. I met Carlos back in high school, when I was a junior and he was freshman. I didn't see him for at least 3 years, until I saw him back in March. That day we met up with a bunch of friends and went to the beach, I found out that he had a nice black Triumph. He saw my camera and told me to photoshoot his bike. It wasn't until last week when that happened. We made plans for two weeks in a row and nothing seemed to work out, due to our "busy" schedule if we can call it like that.

Last Saturday, after work I headed out to warped tour, but my friend called me to go to his gf's bbq, hell friends are more important than going to a dead punk concert where I was going bymyself, and indeed I was going only to watch bands that have heard of playing punk rock (insert here emo bands wanna be punk rock)

After spending some time with some friends, headed back home, and got a message from Carlos, asking where I was. I knew what was the next text. "wanna photo shoot my bike?" Of course I had time, after figuring out the meet up point. We headed to a desolated area to start the session.

Right after a few parked pics, he did a wheelie, and got an ok picture of it, we headed off to another location, where we finish the day, and where Irvin joined us. This guy scared us, he stopped abruptly and went on reverse quite agressively. He scared me because: first, I had my keys in the car. Second, I didn't recognize the car. And third, what would you think if a car pulls over in the way Irvin did it? ....safe to say a thieve?

It got dark too fast, and I didn't get the chance to get to a location where Carlos could do a burn out, and where we wouldn't get in trouble with the law. The next day after I got off work, it was a really nice, hot day. I asked my friend/partner in crime, David a nice location to make a burn out. Luckily he sent me to a nice location, where we finally did it. On our way to the location I picked up Chloe, who helped snaps really nice pics. She got the best shots of the burn out.

Carlos' bike is awesome. Beautiful machine, with an exquisite tone on the exhaust and a perfect black paint.

Let the pictures make the talk.

I love panning shots, this one is one of my favorite.

Carlos and Irvin.

This shot made Carlos happy, he said he had dreamed for this one.

Glad I help.