A super capture!!

a hard nut to crack

Excellent capture

Nice work Auntie K

Well, you claim it's empty, but it seems to have a presence. Looks like it would provide great protection, but visibility through those narrow eye slits must have been pretty limited...

but the crossbows would have made life very difficult to this wearer of this armour! great capture

A very handsome suit. From your title I thought you were referring to one of our politicians.

Magnificent photography !!

I have often thopught, that if we had our skeleton outside the flesh. How would e then look :) LIke insects? I guess so :) This is an outside skeleton kind of :) And how beautifully it is done. Excellent shot too :)

So very elaborate!

WOW, what an excellent glow, dear friend. And thank you for the link, so we can see the whole obkject.

great shot

Makes you wonder how they could see anything.

NICE, Tara! We get a good idea of the etchings in the plates and seams. I doubt if they wore this in battle as it seems to be a display piece. The narrow vision slit suggests fancy dress instead of battle. Keep up the good work! :-)

I've had days where I've felt like that.... But I don't have a lovely suit of armor like this! LOL Well, at least now I've got the time to pop over to the Nelson and see it in person....

Wonderful photo, Tara!

There is a ghost inside, obviously.

you gave us the head and shoulders only, which focuses on the mystery of the deep shadow on its face---it's hard to believe you didn't want that shadow in some way---or at least didn't try to bring out more light in it---as it brings out the deep mystery and even sadness of the knight's life. There's a Rembrandt painting that has a melancholic presence, rather than 'noble'. And this deeply shadowed face reminds me of it, somehow. You didn't bring light to it, in postwork, and that leaves it deep and melancholic. As for the detail, your pic lets detail come forward, but also leaves it sunken into the metal's age, also a sign of wear and passing time. Knights and comparable warriors were, of course, celebrated in Medieval and Renaissance literature (the whole King Arthur corpus is loaded with it, and it comes from many centuries); but many of them were soldiers of fortune, got paid by kings, queens and princes to bring them a 'booty' of riches and so on; and these noble warriors killed and pillaged many innocents. Which makes the shadow and decay on this piece all the more poignant. I can't put a finger on it, Tara, but somehow this shot does NOT bring out the nobility, but the sadness and recessive presence of the thing. And it's a beautiful shot too---you got a very special almost green-tinted sheen on the metal. And the background has much more light than the armor. A very expressive shot, and quite powerful too, esp given what it portrays.

(The "Pisan" style---mentioned in the NA catalog---was from Pisa, but I don't remember the details, except that it included those floral bands, and symbols I've long forgotten, which were to give power to the soldier's fortune; and they ran all across the key portions of the metal, like ornamental bands on fabric...)

Tara, I'm at an hour, and I did 10 or 11 images; I'll come back for more, I've skipped a lot, but for now I must stop. (There are many artists i haven't gotten to at all yet...it seems so formidable when I first start out.) But I love doing a long session here, I get to immerse myself in pieces I've already sat with. I'll do more soon. WOnderful stuff, as always...

Great shot Tara. These guys had to be supermen to function wearing this gear!