Can You Pick What's Wrong With This Image?by David McMahon
So you looked carefully at the image and wondered about the strange angle?
You studied the shadows on the wall, to see if there were any clues there?
You looked at the wallpaper, the strange furniture and the old-fashioned transistor radio, to glean some sort of hint?
Okay, allow me to explain. This is an “upside down room” at Scienceworks and the display that you see here is actually suspended, yes, entirely suspended from the ceiling. So I was standing below the display, shooting upwards – and hoping that nothing would fall on my head!
I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my images in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 18-125mm lens. F8, 1/4 sec, ISO 800, focal length 18mm.
Nope, missed it, sadly (read: had no idea of its existence)
I need to spend a LOT more time in Australia in order to see so many more things!!
Melbourne: penguins, trestle bridge, part of the Dandenongs, Churchill Island, Moonlit Sanctuary neighbours and st kilda beach/pier check.
To do list: more of the Dandenongs, going on the Puffing Billy train and actually travelling on it, scienceworks, relaxing time at Docklands, not ending up there by accident when in a relative hurry…, zoo… then…. see friend again but also meet loads of bubblers who I had never even heard of 10 months ago when I was actually there ;-)
WOW was it only 10 months that I was there? Time flies when you don’t fly… ;-)
And I’ll introduce you to some great RB colleagues too ….
What with all this needing to see my cousins again in SA and the need to meet various people again in Melbourne, I do not see how I can ever see Brisbane, let alone revisit Cairns and Sydney ;-)
Just not enough weeks in the year :-P
Fit ’em all in, compress more into each day – and take more photographs of each place!
In July 1986, we moved to Ottawa (temporarily) and took our daughters to the National Museum of Science & Technology. There we had fun in the “Krazy Kitchen” where everything was off kilter. Similar idea, but we could hardly keep our balance as it made us very dizzy. Fascinating place to visit!
I didn’t know you lived in Ottawa for a while. The Krazy Kitchen sounds great – yes I know what you mean about balance and perception!
Comments
That’s amazing!!!
So glad you like the shot! It was an amazing room !
– David McMahon
Well I think nothing is wrong here .. simply that you have a powerful glue! ;o)))
One of the benefits of living Down Under – we have to glue EVERYTHING to our ceilings!
– David McMahon
yes the floor is on the ceiling….
Absolutely right – now flaw/ floor in your logic, Ellis!
– David McMahon
ok… read your description and yay! :-D
Did you catch Scienceworks on your last trip?
– David McMahon
Nope, missed it, sadly (read: had no idea of its existence)
I need to spend a LOT more time in Australia in order to see so many more things!!
Melbourne: penguins, trestle bridge, part of the Dandenongs, Churchill Island, Moonlit Sanctuary neighbours and st kilda beach/pier check.
To do list: more of the Dandenongs, going on the Puffing Billy train and actually travelling on it, scienceworks, relaxing time at Docklands, not ending up there by accident when in a relative hurry…, zoo… then…. see friend again but also meet loads of bubblers who I had never even heard of 10 months ago when I was actually there ;-)
WOW was it only 10 months that I was there? Time flies when you don’t fly… ;-)
And I’ll introduce you to some great RB colleagues too ….
– David McMahon
Sounds Good :-D
What with all this needing to see my cousins again in SA and the need to meet various people again in Melbourne, I do not see how I can ever see Brisbane, let alone revisit Cairns and Sydney ;-)
Just not enough weeks in the year :-P
Fit ’em all in, compress more into each day – and take more photographs of each place!
– David McMahon
In July 1986, we moved to Ottawa (temporarily) and took our daughters to the National Museum of Science & Technology. There we had fun in the “Krazy Kitchen” where everything was off kilter. Similar idea, but we could hardly keep our balance as it made us very dizzy. Fascinating place to visit!
I didn’t know you lived in Ottawa for a while. The Krazy Kitchen sounds great – yes I know what you mean about balance and perception!
– David McMahon
Great workmanship and very clever too !
It’s a great room, Jan – and really challenges perception!
– David McMahon
Brilliant!!!
Thanks very much – a real case of “reverse vertigo”!
– David McMahon
you were hanging from the ceiling ???
I did think about that, Janis, but the Araldite on the soles of my boots was no guarantee!
– David McMahon