Outside, looking in...

[aprilS]

View large or on black.

[habakuk]

This picture is a question. It is the very moment before a decision. The answer is either left and warmly lit or right and cold. The door is open for me, all I have to do is to take the decision...

Nice symmetry, which is broken a bit by the brighter blue window on the left and the person on the right side. I'm not yet decided if I like the person in the foreground or not. Since I perceive this as my question, my decision (not hers), I'd probably love it better without.

So nice color contrast and feeling of space here!

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[eob]

The lighting and color palette are obvious points of interest here. But I am more immediately fascinated by linear and geometric patterns in the walls and ceiling. Then, the inclusion of people  in each room adds mystery and intrigue. There is a story behind and between them.

[aprilS]

Thank you for your comments and interpretations.

Roland, my husband felt similar, though for different reasons. His viewpoint is that of a voyeur, so he's uncomfortable in the same room as the forward figure. Since I wanted to re-process, I also worked up a variation[1]:



I tend toward eob's take about the people, however, and think that is weaker without the third character. I do wish the gesture was stronger -- looking back toward the other two.

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[1] I did capture shots with and without in each room; also with lights on and off.

[Ted Byrne]

Oooh how I wish I could see this blown up bazillion times. It is a mural... murals demand big honking walls April... not teeny little monitor screens. You need to find a sugar daddy (don't we all) who will open his wallet and send this to a lab that will print it, at the minimum, garage door gordo. Yes... and it needs to be displayed in the right light... not outside... Nope on one of those huge white museum walls that some folks have built into their $17 million plus homes. Or... or... better yet... behind the receptionist at a super, high class, elegant entry to a legal firm that's way up in a skyscraper where the elevator opens right onto the reception area.

And of course with the museum quality lighting.

And then... then... I can appreciate it.

Keep me posted, can't wait to visit this thing. It's going to blow the clients away!!!!

[habakuk]

Yes, I feel the shot loses quite some power without that third person. Thanks for the comparison. It provides me food for thoughts!

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[aprilS]

Ted, you mean like this or this?  (For the latter, see Salle 1 and Salle 2.)

My husband recently visited Paris, sent me photographs from this museum, and it blew me away. Somehow, I had no idea Monet painted panoramas...!