Statue of Liberty

CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
edited July 2, 2012 in Other Cool Shots
Last week my wife and I were in New York. We went with a friend to see the statue. I'd lived in New York for six years, long ago, and had never seen it. All of us found it very moving.

We walked all around it. I also photographed it from the water. I realized that it's pretty hard to be original when you're photographing a place that has probably been photographed hundreds of millions of times. The composition I liked best looked entirely familiar.

Liberty-2-XL.jpg

Maybe there's no reason to even snap the shutter, but I did, and I'm glad I did.

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  • moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,420 Major grins
    edited July 1, 2012
    That is a great image!
  • rontront Registered Users Posts: 1,473 Major grins
    edited July 2, 2012
    Love it!!

    Ron
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  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited July 2, 2012
    moose, ront, thanks very much.
  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited July 2, 2012
    Classic. Good exposure and composition. You can blow it up and hang it on your wall and know that *you* took the shot! thumb.gif
    Chris
  • black mambablack mamba Registered Users Posts: 8,325 Major grins
    edited July 2, 2012
    Nicely done, Don.

    The last time I visited the statue, you could climb way up inside the thing. Do they still allow that?

    Tom
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  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited July 2, 2012
    Thanks, ChrisJ.

    Tom, I think that's still allowed in general, but the inside was closed for some reason when we were there.
  • jirojiro Registered Users Posts: 1,865 Major grins
    edited July 2, 2012
    Loved the tight composition here, Don. I'm glad you decided to keep this in color. thumb.gifthumbthumb.gifclap.gifclapclap.gif
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  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited July 2, 2012
    "Sitting quietly, doing nothing. Spring comes and the grass grows by itself."

    Basho. A favorite.

    Thanks for the comment.
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