Photographs and thoughts on photography and camera collecting
I’ve always liked Ivy growing over fences, old buildings, statues etc. I particularly liked this one because the Ivy itself looks dead. Maybe it would make a nice black and white image?
Grounds for Sculpture was originally part of the Trenton Speedway at the former New Jersey State Fairgrounds. This column stands on what was originally the foundation for the Grandstand Extension. It’s now now referred to as the “sculpture pad”
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
Actually, it’s called Dorion and its creator is Bruce Beasley
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
It’s another one by Seward Johnson and it’s called “Midstream”.
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
In addition to the version of Manet’s Olympia (See: Grounds for Sculpture – Arriving at the visitor’s center) a number of statues based on Impressionist paintings were scattered around the landscape. These are just a few of them.
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
It’s actually called: “Has Anyone Seen Larry? (The Three Fates)”, but it reminds me more of Macbeth’s three witches than it does of the Morai of ancient Greek religion and mythology, often known in English as the Fates. Three sisters: Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the allotter) and Atropos (the unturnable, a metaphor for death), they were the personifications of destiny.
Of course, the witches in Macbeth are nameless, and do bear a striking resemblance to the three Fates of classical mythology.
The skulls in the cauldron were rather gruesome.
Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II