mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

This is one of those shots that came out better than I expected. The results I got when shooting this sculpture called Mother Earth, overlooking the Potomac River in Georgetown, was a lucky accident as a result of the cloud patterns. Had it been a grey day or a cloudless sky the results would have been less interesting IMHO.

As you can see, when standing at the proper angle the sculpture defines a woman's face in the sky to the right of it. Most of the images taken of this sculpture result in featureless faces with only a facial outline. That day, however the clouds cooperated! Note the eye area, and the eye lid and brow, with some shape and texture, the flared nostrils and the definition of the bottom of the nose, the well defined lips, the tree branches and leaves framing the face like hair, and an ear appropriately placed and slightly defined by a light patch of sky through an opening in the branches approximately where an the ear would be. This is the original sky and it was not altered other than by tonal changes, contrast and sharpening made globally to the entire image using DXO PhotoLab Elite. The cloud pattern in the original raw file looks identical.

This sculpture is part of the Mother Earth Project which has put similar sculptures in cities around the world to promote the sustainability of earth's resources.

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NMGal Loc: NE NM

The angle makes something identifiable out of an otherwise meaningless sculpture (in my eyes).

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Wonderful shot!

mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey

The main purpose of the sculpture is to create the outline of a face in the sky - Mother Earth overlooking her planet. To accomplish that goal the artist created a sculpture which by itself has less meaning. However. its lines and contours are still quite attractive and change dramatically as you move around it.