Photographing Mercury

 

Last November I did a post about the Florentine Baroque exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum.  The exhibit contained some impressive paintings and some equally impressive frames for many of them. In fact, I mentioned in that post that the frames were also works of art.

The exhibit also included this statue of Mercury in his most common pose.  The statue was inside a glass case and against that very "busy" wall so it was difficult to get a good photo of it. I think this is the best one I got.

When I was at the art museum last week for the mini symphony concert, I decided to try taking another photo of that statue.  I decided to try the "stage light" mode on my iPhone to see if I could get the image without that busy background.  This was the result.  It managed to get rid of the background but it picked up reflections in the glass case.  I believe that is a face from one of the paintings on the opposite wall.  It certainly gave Mercury a ghostly look.