Our whirlwind tour of Victoria in 2009 tried to take in the majority of the museums and cultural collections of the city. One such place which had been described to me by a co-worker as "the best place in the world" was 'Miniature World', a small museum connected to the Empress Hotel.
The small size of these photos doesn't really to justice to the scale of some of the displays, the train photograph below is only a snippet of a diorama showing Canada from coast to coast with a train running the length of it every few minutes along with lights for day/night and detail crammed into every inch.
The displays ran the gamut throughout history from World War 2, to the Middle Ages to an entry display of a space station which was gorgeous but sadly too dark to photograph well enough to share online.
I found that the macro mode of my camera helped capture these miniatures with a sense of scale and depth which I very much enjoyed experimenting with but which may not come across as well in such small pictures.
The small size of these photos doesn't really to justice to the scale of some of the displays, the train photograph below is only a snippet of a diorama showing Canada from coast to coast with a train running the length of it every few minutes along with lights for day/night and detail crammed into every inch.
The displays ran the gamut throughout history from World War 2, to the Middle Ages to an entry display of a space station which was gorgeous but sadly too dark to photograph well enough to share online.
I found that the macro mode of my camera helped capture these miniatures with a sense of scale and depth which I very much enjoyed experimenting with but which may not come across as well in such small pictures.
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