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Not a lotta 'Terra Cotta' National Geographic marches out striking feats of clay, yet troops lack magnitude By Blake Gopnik Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Over Thanksgiving week, something like 16,350 people headed to "Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor," at the National Geographic Museum downtown. The show was sold out for all seven days. I was part of that crowd, happily keeping company with family in town for the holidays. Halfway through the show, a strange fact struck me about the treasures on display: Most of the time, most of us had our backs to them. Visitors were spending more time on the texts that line the galleries' walls than on the statues displayed across their floors. It was often easier to get face time with a 2,000-year-old terra cotta warrior than an unjostled view of the text panel that explained him. Given that the objects themselves had so little leverage on us, a question came to mind that I bet few ...3 days ago
THIS GUY IS REALLY AMAZING! (Click either to enlarge for detail.)
5 days ago
The sun came out so I tried a couple more High Dynamic Range images from beside and above my home. Here are the results…
