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Amber Museum I
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The Palanga Amber Museum - Branch of the Lithuanian Art Museum - was established on August 3, 1963. It is housed on the estate of Count Feliksas Tiskevicius (1865-1932). The estate, designed by German architect Franc Schwechten (1841-1924), was built in 1897. The Palanga Botanical Gardens, designed by the landscape architect Eduard Francois Andre (1840-1911), surround the Estate. The Palanga Amber Museum’s exposition takes up 15 rooms. About 4,500 exhibit pieces are found here. Visitors are acquainted with the formation, processing, practical application, and morphological variations of amber. The museum has a wealth of amber pieces with trapped insects or plants, a collection of unique pieces of amber, and examples of fossilized tree resin brought from all over the world.

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.annie100
06/23/08 12:16 AM GMT
Great postcard shot!!!!!!
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::dabluechip
06/24/08 10:10 PM GMT
It looks like they need some landscape work. great shot.
jonathan
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Procrastination is just one more symptom and verification that we do not consider our moral state in the planning of our day to day activities. -David Crowder
+regmar
06/24/08 10:15 PM GMT
What a beautiful building, eh? I love the neo-classical look of the Doric columns, the Grecian lintels, and the statues. I think you tried to do something here that I've never figured out how to do - to get the whole building in one frame. I suspect (for what it's worth) that you might have been even more successful by shooting a small piece of the building to capture a microcosm of the whole. An example would be getting within about 30 feet of the statue, and shooting a perspective shot past it towards the conservatory(?) at left allowing the tree to close the left side of the frame. That would give you color contrast as well as a firm visual element (whatever that is). Again though I love your choice of subjects, and the incredible blue of the sky.
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.Kilroy_was_here
06/25/08 6:31 AM GMT
This is a great shot and a great job of getting that shot. You did a great job in terms of focus and framing the subject and getting the money shot, like one other said, this would be a great post card shot. Nice job and you can be very proud of yourself with this one. Keep up the good work we see in your gallery.

You did a good job of gathering a lot of research on the subject you were shooting also. I don't see a lot of that. I should write that one down, now where is that pencil....

Keith
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Too love and lost... yea, yea. What ever...

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