Simon says: Statues....................

[StormChaser]

I thought it was time for a new general Simon that everybody has access to. So here's the best one ever, in my view, maybe not the best crop, but a great statue none the less. Happy shooting, everybody.

[sandman]

Lets hope this one does'nt die a death like some of the other simon's.
Taken at hever castle.

Brian

[StormChaser]

That's why I chose a little more easy subject, so that I could participate as well.
Shot that one in London last week by the way, only there for 48 hours, but I had my aromatic crispy duck, my fish'n chips, Yo sushi and crayfish in Harrod's oyster bar, so that was a good trip, foodwise.

[StormChaser]

Love that shot, I'm allways trying to get a still water shot but it's always just of as well.

[S_Leeper]

This is from the NJ Gardens of Sculpture(sp?) in South Jersey...
The head is about 6-10 feet tall.

[S_Leeper]

Also, from NJ GoS... This is my personal favorite from there...

[steph]

Well, it's a statue, innit?

[KeithM]

who was a friend of Robbie Burns...

Nice sunny day as well !

Mostly normal settings, Sigma 17-35 set at 17mm. USM, crop, burn sky to deepen blue.

Keith.

[KeithM]

A fine gentleman this. Not exactly a statue, more of a bust ( cue Police Squad, Captain Drevine(SP?): "that's some kinda bust!" )...

:)

Keith.

[t.hanz]

Stoned Madonnas?

[JPS]

Fuji S2 + Nikkor 50 mm. f/1.8 + SB-80DX
1:60 @ f/6.7 - ISO 100 - all manual - ORG/ORG/OFF

[Linda G]

couldn't resist, I have two of the same thing, one closeup to see the subject, second to see why I titled it as I did.

On our visit to Romania, our hotel was next to the antiquities building. The country is not in a position to take care of such things, or is not willing at this time, so many of their Roman/Greek artifacts lay around! I call this 'An Orchard of Ruins'

[Linda G]

And the second

[VA_Shooter]

Beautiful photograph, Linda. Very mysterious, very lonely. Well done.

Connie

[StormChaser]

Is this it everybody?

[Igor]

How about six at once :)

[StormChaser]

Very nice, I think you've got some dustspecks on your lens a/o mirror.

[Igor]

Thanks Anthonie, yes, I need to clean my CCD soon, but the dots on this photo are actual flaws on the building.

[Igor]

here's a crop...

[dhani2489]

i tried to upload mine but it's always shown up like this in the past 2 days

"Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in E:\Web\forums\newreply.php on line 2"

:( :(
dhani

[VA_Shooter]

Closest I can come to a statue right now...kind of liked the way the afternoon sun fell on the statue and the wall behind it.

[Igor]

Dhani, I had this same problem too when my ISP was very slow. Now it's gone. Maybe you should try some faster connection or some smaller files to upload...

[VA_Shooter]

Another statue, of sorts...

[GaryB]

I think this just about counts....

Gary

[Swampy]

I've made a note of it Dhani. We'll be looking into it. But it may be a combination of mine and your connection together. Hopefully we'll be getting this onto that really fast connection soon which my help or completely fix it.

[dhani2489]

thanks Bryan , Igor

i have 2 accounts on different ISPs , switching between them still didn't work, the speed are around 45 - 52 Kbps.

the uploaded file is 490 K

thanks again , hope it'll be ok

:) :)
dhani

[Igor]

Dhani, I try to keep my pics under 150kb.

[dhani2489]

shrink it down to 88 K now

dhani

[dhani2489]

Wow!!! it's work now,

thank Igor and Bryan as well

dhani :p

[Linda G]

Well worth the wait! Awesome statue.

[Igor]

Really great statue! Dhani, who is it?

[Serge]

...atop the Archibald Fountain
Syney's Hyde Park..
shot in digital TriColor mode

[Swampy]

Max file size is 256k anyway Dhani. No wonder it didn't work. :)

[dhani2489]

thanks Bryan , got it now not more than 256 K :)

Igor, he's the door guard in the temple of Emerald Bhudda

dhani

[Andre]

Well it's kinda statue-like.
I thought the morning frost looked cool.

[StormChaser]

Love that frost, the weather is still about 10 degrees celsius plus down here. We only had some freezing about three weeks ago.
Hope to make some of those shots soon though.:righton:

[Steve_in_TX]

Please bear with me- this will be my first image post. I hope it works...

I really enjoy the pics in these forums- Thanks to all!

Regards,
Steve

[sandman]

Nice shot Steve , difficult exposure but you got it spot on .
i've seen this shot many times , a picture by photographer Jim Rosenthal of the marines raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima. but did'nt know it had been cast as a statue . is it in Texas?.

Brian

[Steve_in_TX]

Thanks, Sandman!

I took this while visiting Washington DC earlier in the year. If I remember correctly, this monument is located a short distance from Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. It is much larger than I thought it would be, and very impressive- like so many of the things in/around DC.

-Steve

[es136]

here is mine

Eddie

[jamesdane]

From Hyatt Grand Cypress in Orlando - S2, Nikon 24-120, Auto WB, F, 3024, High, Std, Std

[jamesdane]

From Hyatt Grand Cypress in Orlando - S2, Nikon 24-120, Auto WB, F, 3024, High, Std, Std

Processed with Kodak Digital ROC in Elements

[jamesdane]

One more

From Hyatt Grand Cypress in Orlando - S2, Nikon 24-120, Auto WB, F, 3024, High, Std, Std

Processed with Kodak Digital ROC in Elements

[okidoki]

Here are two Girafs from our friends backyard.

http://24.126.231.108/julku/pizza-pizzulli-1103/images/PizzaAtPizzulli-0054.jpg

And here is a dude from the Getty center in LA.

http://24.126.231.108/julku/getty080303/images/0025.jpg

Hope you like them, settings unrecorded, meaning I can't recall... think the "dude" was shot on ISO1600.

T

[jamesdane]

Indoor shot, Auto WB, Nikkor 24-120, F, High, Std, Std, handheld, through Plexiglass protective cover

[Carlton]

Here is St. Joseph and the Christ Child I did for a promotion. Reworked in PS.
(Nasa & NSSDC is the supplier of the earth image. See the National Space Science Data Center website for full details and more images).
Sorry I'm late with my entry, but wanted to share this with you....

[S_Leeper]

Awesome!!!

What were they promoting?

[Carlton]

Thanks Sam,
This was one of the cover designs for their pictorial church directory.(Saint Joseph Parish)

[choctaw]

Coal miners memorial in my home town taken the other day.

[rbruhn]

Daniel Chester French's "Gettysburg" Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Taken in 1978, so not exactly with an S2, but so what...

[Keith Cocker]

This is a memorial in a Chapel in a Country House in Worcestershire UK - Croome Court

[Wichita Wayne]

The day after the Sex Pistol concert in Chicago last fall we went to the Musieum of Natural History to see Sue (or is that Souix) and stoped next to the Chris Columbus statue. My son struck a pose and there you have it. My statue picture in vertical panorama.

[Serge]

Then.....Santa Maria! they sailed off without me :lol:


Now.... Hey Dude, where's my skateboard :lol:



Nice boy Wayne, good merge, clean :righton:

[Wichita Wayne]

Thanks Serge but there was no merge, only crop to about 4 X 10 of of a vertical picture. I also had to dodge a little on the statue to bring out some detail. Other than that it is pretty much straight out of the camera.

[poolman]

Dale Earnhardt at the Daytona speedway. :(

[kcmocopper]

Kansas City Missouri Police Memorial Statue

[chaser of light]

I knew I had a small statue somewhere.
Ramses the second at the Abou Simble temple on the shores of the Lake, Egypt.:)

[Andre]

Nice shot Chaser!

[VA_Shooter]

Small statue...you are too funny, Max. Great shot.

[Serge]

Originally posted by chaser of light
I knew I had a small statue somewhere.
Ramses the second at the Abou Simble temple on the shores of the Lake, Egypt.:)


That's more like it Max, but that looks like a scan maybe from a previous trip, not that it makes any less enjoyable :)
Shame if you did'nt get the chance on this trip, how I'd love to
be there myself, love ancient history.


Ramses II, was he the Pharoah of the Exodus? a believe there has been a lot of conjecture.

Are you familiar with Emmanuel Velikovsky's work on ancient historic reconstruction?, he is the father of the Catastrophism worldview as opposed to Gradualism.
"Worlds in Collision", was his first and most controversial book.
A fascinating read if you are ever stuck for inspiration.

[proberts]

Originally posted by Steve_in_TX
Thanks, Sandman!

I took this while visiting Washington DC earlier in the year. If I remember correctly, this monument is located a short distance from Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. It is much larger than I thought it would be, and very impressive- like so many of the things in/around DC.

-Steve

You remember correctly, my office at my last employer used to overlook the Marine Corps Memorial. I've got some 6x6 shots of it around here somewhere taken with an old Mamiya C330 TLR. My favorite statue downtown is sitll Albert Einstein down across the street from the Vietnam memorial.

Paul

[Jacqui Jay]

This is a statue of Jesus and Mary Magdalene in a garden in Chester cathedral. I've never been quite sure what to make of it, because it has quite sensual overtones. I was going to remove the cobwebs from the second picture but then I thought they somehow completed the circle.

[Jacqui Jay]

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[chaser of light]

Jaqui, all I can say is wow! these two images are very powerful!

[thetran]

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