Science Museum plus Lensbaby equals fun

Thought I'd take a break from recapping our holiday trip and show something else we did last weekend...fear not, our days in Gibraltar, Seville, Cordoba, the Mezquita, and a resort on the coast are coming up!One of the great things (dare I say...the greatest thing?) about London is the omnipresence of free museums. While the Tate Modern is definitely my favorite place to drop in, another one that's up on the list is the Science Museum. So that's just what Lefteris and I did the other day. And dropping in turned into a 5-hour extravaganza.I had my camera and my Lensbaby along. I remember shooting with the Lensbaby at the Exploratorium in San Francisco and there was some fun stuff involved in that, to be sure. This time was EVEN BETTER. Note to self: exhibits with lots of lights plus abstract lenses with wide apertures equals FUN.The main attraction right now is a giant climate exhibit. The main attraction always to me is anything related to spaaaaaaaaaaace, the final frontier. I'm actually not sure which of those this globe was related to, nor do I really care.But I did learn something wonderful, which is this: an RGB projector is shooting red, green, and blue light at the screen here. With a suffient shutter speed (1/250ish or less) this looks like white light. But with a faster speed, the colors get split. And the museum was filled with projectors, so I was able to play with that to no end. There were also colored lights all over the place, so...heaven with the Lensbaby. Part of the space exhibit was the opportunity to do things like put together screws/nuts and work on a Rubik's cube while wearing space-gloves! And, someone at the museum is diorama-crazy. Fine with me--again, miniatures are tons of fun with the Lensbaby. Space suit!! There were people all over the place sitting in ways I appreciated.Many things appeared to be from the past/future, or the future as conceived in the past.I took this on the way out and I just like it.We then wandered over to the ice skating rink in front of the Natural History Museum, just in time to see the zamboni (and teach Lefteris that word). They had these little penguin things that stood up on the ice for kids to hold onto (so they wouldn't fall down), and after they zambonied (...?) the rink, they rounded all of the penguins into the middle before they opened the gates and let the crowd on the ice. The penguins awaited their performance eagerly.This isn't my best photography ever. But it's so fun to do! And isn't that the point?