Versailles, Musée d’Orsay, L’Orangerie, – wonderful opportunities to visit and see OTT splendour, an impressive collection of Impressionist paintings or a room just filled with Monet’s waterlilies
but still the visitors interest me, almost as much – see how these two strangers mirror each other
and some can be as decorative as the exhibits.
Everyone though wanted to have their photo taken behind the station clock of Musée D’Orsay, as the light diffusing though made for some interesting images.
In fact on entering here a young man asked me to snap him in front of the clock, with his iPhone. In so doing it made me aware that a beam cuts across the circular face and that rather spoils the whole effect. Hence I took this portrait photo with that beam just framing so as to show I had not cut it off accidentally!
What a relief that there were no hordes taking selfies with Monet’s Nymphéas of the Musée de l’Orangerie as they did in Madrid using Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ as background. Just a few scattered visitors so that viewing the 8 compositions close up and without rush was just like being in a “Sistine Chapel of Impressionism” as André Masson once labelled it.
