Canon 5D Mark II - shooting at Walters Art Museum

Today took my Canon EOS 5D Mark II on its first real field trip, Walters Art Museum In Baltimore, Maryland. The camera is amazing, I used my 35l, 85L, and a Sigma 10-22 and got some amazing shots. Will be uploading over the next few days. I shot 350 pics, that's a 8gb card plus half a 4gb. All Raw and exported to Adobe Lightroom 2.2. I shot in mostly in TV Mode, and most of the shots are 3200 ISO. Wow!

Walters Art Museum HBW (4 of 4)

Walters Art Museum HBW (3 of 4)

Walters Art Museum HBW (2 of 4)

Walters Art Museum HBW (1 of 4)

Dance Little Sista

1757-1834

La Fayette

Monumental

Ray-Ban - Day 21

Taking the 5D2 for a spin to the Walters Art Museum

a quickr pickr post

The Walters Art Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland's Mount Vernon neighborhood, is a public art museum founded in 1934. The museum's collection was amassed substantially by two men, William Thompson Walters (1819-1894), who began serious collecting when he moved to Paris at the outbreak of the American Civil War, and Henry Walters (1848–1931), who refined the collection and rehoused it in a palazzo building on Charles Street which opened in 1909. Upon his death, Henry Walters bequeathed the collection of over 22,000 works and the original Charles Street palazzo building to the city of Baltimore, “for the benefit of the public.” The collection touches masterworks of ancient Egypt, Greek sculpture and Roman sarcophagi, medieval ivories, illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance bronzes, Old Master and 19th-century paintings, Chinese ceramics and bronzes, and Art Deco jewelry.

In 2000, the Walters Art Gallery changed its name to the Walters Art Museum to reflect its image as a large public institution. The following year, the museum reopened its largest building after a dramatic three-year renovation. The Walters Art Museum is where the Archimedes Palimpsest may be seen.

Starting Sunday, October 1, 2006, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum began having free admission year-round as a result of grants given by Baltimore City and Baltimore County.