The last five shots at the National Gallery

I think there are at least 350 rooms inside the National Gallery and to get from one to the other you usually step through a wide but shallow doorway or space.

Occasionally the space between rooms is 12 - 15 feet long, and on my first trip through such a long space I spied a porthole.


Accustomed to stopping and staring at and taking prohibited photos of valuable pieces of art, I stopped and stared at the porthole.

What is it? I asked myself. A piece of contemporary art perhaps?

I stepped closer to the round shape.


No, the porthole only provided a view of the inner workings of the gallery’s air-conditioning system, but the effect was as brilliant as the skeleton of the white plastic lawn chair whale hung from the ceiling of a room I’d visited a short time back.

I looked to my left. No security guard.


["The third shot. Brilliant lines. Shimmering colours": photos GH]

I looked to my right. A person looked at me curiously, saw my camera, then moved on before I could take their picture.

I took three quick pictures before leaving the building and gazing at the Center Block of the Canadian Parliament Buildings.




Have you ever seen a more beautiful group of buildings?

How about a more brilliant air-conditioning system?

If you have, I beg to differ!

I mean, look at them pipes, would ya!!

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