Usually this scene would have ice skaters (cancelled for this winter) or umbrella tables if it were spring or summer. So this is an unusual way to see the Bean in its emptiness.
@jgpittenger Thanks! Sadly, like I never left. But the island and the months away helped me get saner about what is and isn't safe. So I'm getting out a bit more to walk outside with a mask; work out outside with my trainer, both masked and socially distant, while weather was warm enough; get to the dentist in a safe way. I would never have done that last spring. But numbers are growing so fast that I suspect I'll be back to quarantine and isolation sooner rather than later.
@tunia Thanks, Tina. I started using the watermark feature in Lightroom during the NEOWISE comet event. I noticed one of my photos had been widely shared and often uncredited. While not a big thing, I just thought I'd like having my name on it when I post on places outside 365. And then I got too lazy to change the setting for ones I'm posting on 365! I"m glad you don't find it distracting!
@30pics4jackiesdiamond Thanks for your visit Jackie! The Bean is a solid sculpture so there's no going 'inside' -- only under it. It has the reflective coating all over it so you get interesting depth and pattern when underneath it. Because of Covid and how interactive the Bean is with people touching it all the time, we can only view it now from a distance. It's really the touching/contact issue that's the concern, nothing else.
The reflection in the 'bean' is foreboding to say the least. I hope that we can be smart(er) going forward and kick this covid down enough to be more in control this time. Please stay safe and sane.
S the bean just there?? Can you go inside it??