In honor of by goodoleboy
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
the brave professionals who keep our community safe.
Captured 10/24/13, early on an overcast morning, across the spacious lawn from our City Hall, exactly 1.27 miles from home.
Shown from left to right, we have the Public Safety Officer, Firefighter, Sheriff Deputy (yes, we do have female cops, and a lot of them) and Highway Patrol Officer (I hate bow ties on police officers, it makes them look so dorky).
It took me three trips before I came away satisfied, or at least semi satisfied, with the tons of photos I took of this intrepid group. Since they are facing north, the sun never shines on their front, so not much lighting there, which forced me to use fill-in flash, that had absolutely no effect. I think that the flash on my American model Tizzy is out of sync with my camera. Hence, I had to digifiddle these pics to the Nth degree to achieve any sort of acceptable brightness and contrast.
And, in contrast to my fountain sculptures, there were no trespassing restrictions placed around this setting, so I was able to click away with complete impunity.
One of the things I like about photographing sculptures is that they never move around and fidget, or ham it up.
Adieu

Comments (11)
Wow! That is an amazing find and capture!
Harry, this is a fantastic collage of these brave professionals
What a lovely commemorative sculpture! We have a lot of female police officers and firefighters too. You did well with the lighting being what it is, it must be your postwork that rescues it so nicely. There are so many fine details to be seen on these statues, and all are clearly visible in your shots. Well done, my friend!
Amazing image my friend, gorgeous sculptures, superb shot!
Terrific photos, Harry. Good to see a slim policewoman. Most of the male US police we see on the news are about 280pounds.
Fantastic photos of this intrepid group of professionals. Fantastic details and you have mastered very well the difficult lighting conditions. A superb collage.
Beautiful sculptures Great collage!!!!!
Fabulous scultures and Fantastic picture !!!
A very nice collage depicting our local government professionals. Go figure, for what we pay them they should'nt be standing around like a bunch of statues. Ha Ha. Great postwork!
great images! Loved your descriptions!
Nice Harry.. Its SO good to see you at least respect there jobs and these people.. Here, they are sometimes over paid, big headed, and under appreciated as well, though not in the same jobs in these cases! Good post mate! Rob