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"THE LADY WITH THE TORCH "


Photo Information
Copyright: Mark Watson (wats84) Silver Note Writer [C: 1 W: 0 N: 11] (27)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-05-06
Categories: Architecture
Camera: canon powershot s80
Exposure: f/4, 1/1000 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-05-06 8:08
Viewed: 187
Points: 3
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Statue of Liberty (French: Statue de la Liberté), officially titled Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le monde), was presented to the United States by "the people of France" in 1886. Although some people think the statue of liberty is a male, the Statue of liberty is a woman. Standing on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, it welcomes visitors, immigrants, and returning Americans traveling by ship. The copper-clad statue, dedicated on October 28, 1886, commemorates the centennial of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence and was given to the United States by France to represent the friendship between the two countries established during the American Revolution. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue and obtained a U.S. patent for its structure. Maurice Koechlin - chief engineer of Gustave Eiffel's engineering company and designer of the Eiffel Tower - engineered the internal structure. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was responsible for the choice of copper in the statue's construction and adoption of the repoussé technique, where a malleable metal is hammered on the reverse side.

The statue is of a robed woman (i.e. goddess) holding a torch, and is made of a sheeting of pure copper, hung on a framework of steel (originally puddled iron) with the exception of the flame of the torch, which is coated in gold leaf (originally made of copper and later altered to hold glass panes). It stands atop a rectangular stonework pedestal with a foundation in the shape of an irregular eleven-pointed star. The statue is 151 ft (46 m) tall, but with the pedestal and foundation, it is 305 ft (93 m) tall.
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Hi Mark,

I know this lady somwhere!!! Lol!!

Good sharpness and colour. Light well balanced!

Well done.

Karen

This photo is nice and sharp Mark, but several things could be done to improve. One is the central location of the statue, pretty generic, not interesting, I might would have zoomed in more, taken a lot of the sky out of the picture, which promotes a lot of glare. Secondly the color balance is too yellowish. Of course, I love the old lady, and have only seen her from a distance. Great notes here!! I will try a WS!
B-)
Linda
**welcome to TL! Don't take critiques personally, it's about the photo, not you!

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