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Dome [Washington DC Pictures]

© Chris Budny
Deluxe Website: chrisbudny.com

Dome

Uploaded: December 02, 2011 03:51:35

Description

The main reading room in the Library of Congress is as spectacular a space as the rest of the building. Allegorical figures representing the major
contributors to human civilization are painted around the crest of the dome, below the lantern. Tourists can glimpse this great room from a
glass-enclosed viewing gallery in the drum of the dome (where I took this photograph); researchers/scholars can use the room itself.

Exif: F Number: 5, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/30 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 400, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 38.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 7D

Comments

Joy Rector December 02, 2011

beautiful #1427280

Katarina Mansson December 02, 2011

Lovely patterns, composition, tones and description! #9843070

Mary Beth Aiello level-classic December 02, 2011

You were so fortunate to get in there, Chris. Outstanding. #9843252

Carol Flisak level-classic December 02, 2011

Beautiful image, Chris... love the comp and colors! #9843752

Chris Budny level-deluxe December 03, 2011

Thanks so much, ladies! #9845046

Nikki McDonald level-classic December 04, 2011

If I understand your description correctly you did not "get in there" but rather took this image through glass? All the more impressive to me. I love the off-center composition which was probably necessitated by the viewing angle but works incredibly well for me and the tones of this one. I'm thinking it would make an excellent finalist one of these months :) #9847491

Chris Budny level-deluxe December 04, 2011

You're exactly right, Nikki... I got "into" the normal public-access/tourist viewing space, which is entirely enclosed in thick plate glass. (Mary Beth, having been in that same space earlier this summer, may have assumed I got "into" the room itself, since photography is not allowed from the viewing platform---but the docent told me I could shoot, as long as it was only the ceiling!)
So I did shoot through that plate glass (really wishing I'd had a polarizer, because there were other shots I got, but they have bad reflections; this was the most reflection-free, after cropping.)
Fingers crossed your prediction holds true; thanks! #9847511

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