Jeri, a big thank you for your always practical advices. I have an app. in my phone that it is a little lantern, however I never thought in using it in Museums. Regards
Carolina de la Guardia Coming home from the South of Spain for my Easter holidays. > El 8/4/2015, a las 14:11, [email protected] escribió: > > This is for all travelers, and has been written before on Arachne. It is > so automatic to my daily life, that sometimes I forget that I am old > fashioned because I would rather make space in my purse for a flashlight or > torch > and leave cell phones and computers and even cameras behind. > > Read this as a shout: Travel with a small Flashlight (called a Torch in > the U.K.) in your purse. > > It has helped me to see details of lace and clothing in galleries and great > house museums all over Europe and in China. Even in the V and A. It has > helped in complete galleries that have dim lighting. If you use it > discretely, a museum security person will not bother you. If you flash it > all > over a wall, like fireworks, you may be stopped. Use common sense, and it > will be alright. > > A flashlight was invaluable on my first trip overseas - to Switzerland 37 > years ago. I was in St. Gallen, which has a museum of interest to us, > though much is incredibly detailed laces produced by machine - you can > search > to read about. (There was a good review in a newsletter from the Chesapeake > Region Lace Guild - Washington DC and states around it - very recently > that would make most of us want to go there.) St. Gallen is not far from > Zurich by train, and connecting trains took me all through the Alps to > figure > skating landmarks. > > In St. Gallen, I stayed in a very old hotel near the clock tower in the old > part of the city where the open market is very interesting. A friend was > there, visiting her family, and we all went out on New Year's Eve to a > chalet on Lake Constance. At nearly midnight, young men left the party to > go > to the village church. We put on our Winter coats and went outside (it was > snowing gently). At exactly midnight (their timepieces are quite > accurate) they began to ring the church bells. Other men in towns around > the lake > were also ringing church bells. The ringing bells echoed back and forth > across the lake. Best New Year's ever. > > So, we returned to St. Gallen and I was dropped off at the old hotel. In > the lobby, very little lighting. Up one set of stairs, none! It is at > times like this that a lady needs a flashlight to find a light switch. > > Please remember everyone. You'll be able to examine laces close up in > light. If you have room in your purse, a reasonably-sized magnifier is also > handy. > > As we get older, it is more difficult to read fine print in train schedules > and the like in dim light. This is when both of these handy items are > worth their weight in gold. > > I know. I know. You can take a picture with your phone and then see > these things, but.....what parts of the overall experience of travel are you > missing while you are being a photographer focused on one thing? I hate > this > aspect of modern life, because people with all these devices over-ride and > sometimes block what I'm trying to capture from everywhere around me and > retain in the best device - the human brain. I've found very few people are > interested in another person's photos. > > You may take your "stuff", but I'll take a flashlight (every day) and > small magnifier (just in case) on every trip! > > Glad for the experience, I returned to St. Gallen some dozen years later, > in Summer. The old hotel was being reduced to rubble. The picturesque > aspect of the area was being destroyed forever. It is like old lace. Look > at > as much of it as possible, because much is being destroyed forever. > Jeri Ames in Maine USA > Lace and Embroidery Resource Center > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
