I've spent the weekend since having posted “Visiting the Miho Museum” trying (and failing) to fight off a cold, but I seem to be slowly recovering today, so today we have a simple post, of a bunch of geometric-ish images from my visit to the museum, presented in the order I took them (with the exception of the first two images being swapped).

These first two from the tunnel leading to the museum have been processed with differing white-balance settings for dramatic effect. The one above is processed so that the sunlight streaming in is white, turning the incandescent lights lining the tunnel a deep orange.

The one below is the opposite, set so that the tunnel lights are white, thereby turning the sunlight a cool blue...

In reality it was neither blue nor orange... it was a dark spacey gray. But still cool.

I'm not sure what the thing above is, but I think it's a light. (The photo is from directly underneath, looking straight up).

Here's a more conventional view...

Out of curiosity, here's what the “L” shot from above looks like at f/16 instead of f/1.4, flattening the dozen feet between the light and the ceiling into nothing...

Just outside the window where I was taking these light shots is a rock garden of some sort. Looking like it came out of a Sears catalog, it's probably the least well done aspect of the museum...

I'm no expert on rock gardens, but I'm thinking that one needs a better backdrop, and so a square of marble and glass is probably not the ideal location in the first place.

One more shot from the lobby of the special-collections wing, where all the interior shots have been so far...

With “Disconcerting?” above I had intended to post only the color shot, where like in the tunnel the different colors of light can be exaggerated and set upon each other via white-balance adjustments in post, but thought that maybe the lack of color might make for a slightly strange moment as you try to figure out what you're looking at. Maybe not.

In any case, here's the color version...

I tried to get a nice shot of the 2nd floor hallway, but didn't quite do it. Paul always has a nice smile, but this first shot with him in the foreground looking at the off-camera Egypt Room would be better without him...

... and this second shot just doesn't have the right balance...

Oh well, maybe next time. Or maybe not; I'm told it's normally very crowded, so perhaps a future visit won't have such clean views.

On the way out I grabbed a snapshot of one of the first visually-striking things I noticed on the way in, a circular umbrella stand...

I couldn't come up with a good way to make a good photograph, though.

And finally, one more futuristic take on the tunnel...