After Hours at AMNH

After hours at AMNH is a treat. The throngs have vanished and the great halls of dinosaurs and dioramas are peaceful.

I just got a new camera and I'm learning its ways, so I thought, keeping all other things constant, I'd mess with the camera's color temperature to see its effects. I chose a bold, yet biased, subject: the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.

Bold because it's such an immodest building. Biased, not because I work there, but because it's enshrouded in blue light in the evening.

I spanned the white balance on my camera from 2,500 Kelvin up to 10,000 Kelvin to see what effect this will have on my photos. Here is a sampling of the results.

Rose Center at 2500K Map	Rose Center at 2860K Map	Rose Center at 3330K Map
Rose Center at 4550K Map	Rose Center at 5880K Map	Rose Center at 10000K Map

A few other shots of the Rose Center:

Jupter and Saturn Map

Rose Center's Supports Map

Strolled through the fourth floor, where the bones are on display.

Tyrannosaurus Rex Map

Notharctus Map

The dioramas in the North American mammals hall are among my favorites. In my opinion, the coyotes in Yosemite are the best, which I mainly judge based on its background painting.

Running Wolves Map	Under the Wolves Map	Coyote in Yosemite Map
Leopard Map	Brown Bears Map	Bears at Yellowstone Map

The African cheetah and North American eagles, and the Hall of Ocean Life.

African Cheetah Map

Eagle Map

Hall of Ocean Life Map

Outside the museum, the narrow driveway that leads under the Central Park West entrance. And, the Bull Moose dog run on the north side of the museum. I also snapped a shot form the Astor Turret, looking southeast toward Central Park and Midtown Manhattan.

Museum Drive Map

Bull Moose Dog Run Map

From Astor Turret Map