What can you do in a gallery photograph? My most common technique is to take pictures parallel to a wall of the people and items.

Here are four different takes on the Smithsonian Art Galleries in DC that I took on a recent visit.

First up, above is a wall of Fauve paintings with the entrance to another gallery with milling figures. Some nice poses by the people, fortunately. Tonal divisions are mostly hidden and the adjacent room has a repeated door and art work messed about with to hide the giveaway.

The three below vary in their 'type'. The first allows the floor space to be read as mostly continuous but doesn't do much to correct the different colour values in four photos. The one after that is of a large painting that requires some sort of continuity. The last one has a couple of works by two of my favourite artists, Miro and Magritte. The Magritte to the right that plays with the reality of paintings and the reality of the world is called The Human Condition. This seems to require quirkiness on my part. The images are stuck loosely together and don't disguise the fact they are different.

More to come of these. Not sure if they are serious photographs. They have the air of being anecdotes rather short stories and are a long way from being a novel.