Flagler Museum (Part 1)

 I was very excited to join my fellow PBC Photo Walkers at Flagler Museum this past Saturday for our April meetup.

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I did visit once a number of years ago but this was the first time I went with my camera. We were told in advance that we couldn't use flash, which wouldn't be much of an issue if we were allowed tripods... but those weren't allowed either (or monopods or big bags apparently). Therefore, we had to rely on a steady hand and a good lens (and also decent post processing skills) to get shots that weren't too dark and/or blurry.

Only about 20 showed up for this month's meetup but it was the perfect size group (ok, only 18 showed up and we needed 20 to get the group discount, so we "recruited" a couple going in and offered them 4 bucks off each admission).

Once we got there, it took us a good 20 minutes before we even walked in the front door because the outside was so beautiful:

I really have so many more pictures that I haven't even Photoshopped yet but I really wanted to get this blog posted. What I usually do is process my favorites first and then go on from there. Sometimes I'm happily surprised and my favorite shot ends up being one that I didn't really like so much to begin with. This is why I usually don't post pictures for my blog until a few weeks after I go somewhere so I have time to really see them all. However, since I was SO happy with the ones I did so far, I was excited to share them.


My new lens came through for me and I used it pretty much exclusively inside the museum. It really made SUCH a difference:

 

The light coming through the windows really created some unique opportunities:

 

(I really love this one... it's actually a separate building in the back yard)

The best part of Flagler Museum (at least in my mind) is the amazing architecture. This shot is (so far) my favorite of the bunch and it is my Palm Beach County photo of the week on DPC.