Thursday, March 13, 2008

Day at the Getty Center

Saturday, March 8th, my daughter's school had a get-away-day sponsored by the Getty Center.
We boarded one of the charter buses at the school and enjoyed the ride to West Los Angeles. We arrived around 10:30 and got in line for the tram up to the Center. Samantha looks out the window of our car as one of her classmates looks back toward us.

We spent more time outside the galleries. There were many photographic opportunities around the Center. We grabbed a few images before making our way up to the main lobby.

Samantha checks out the flower pot and the water flowing down to the lower fountain pool.

I tried to take a long exposure of on of the fountains in the main courtyard.

We stopped by the Family Room where Samantha had some fun decorating a mask and tracing some oranges.

We made a brief walk through the lower level of the West Pavilion and looked at some the paintings and sculptures on display.


















We eventually made our way to the garden area where Samantha enjoyed the sculpture of the "Walking Flower."















Speaking of flowers, the garden area provide a lot of chances to capture images of the many different flowers that were growing there.













We stopped and had our lunch under the shade of the umbrellas made of rebar with bougainvillea growing up through the structure.













We made our way back to the bus and made our way home. It was a nice day with Samantha.

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