33. Larger than Life - January 26-February 1, 2014
Byron-
This photo shows Erleen holding her new Marilyn Monroe doll. Marilyn was a larger than life person. This doll appears to be about 14" tall, made of some type of fragile porcelain. In reality, the statue is 26 ft tall. It is called "Forever Marilyn". The sculptor is Seward Johnson. The statue is very lifelike in its colors and textures. It came to Palm Springs in 2012 and according to the info plaque was supposed to move on last year. I hope it stays in its present location for a long time. It fits the city.
Shot with my iPhone.
This photo shows Erleen holding her new Marilyn Monroe doll. Marilyn was a larger than life person. This doll appears to be about 14" tall, made of some type of fragile porcelain. In reality, the statue is 26 ft tall. It is called "Forever Marilyn". The sculptor is Seward Johnson. The statue is very lifelike in its colors and textures. It came to Palm Springs in 2012 and according to the info plaque was supposed to move on last year. I hope it stays in its present location for a long time. It fits the city.
Shot with my iPhone.
Deron-
I wasn't sure what I was going to get when I decided to shoot this, but I think the skewered styrofoam cup kind of adds another dimension to this photo, as it stands guard in front of the World's Largest "Paper" Cup. This concrete giant stands at an imposing 68 feet tall and was the 'mascot' for the Lily-Tulip manufacturing company, later Sweetheart Cup Company.
I wasn't sure what I was going to get when I decided to shoot this, but I think the skewered styrofoam cup kind of adds another dimension to this photo, as it stands guard in front of the World's Largest "Paper" Cup. This concrete giant stands at an imposing 68 feet tall and was the 'mascot' for the Lily-Tulip manufacturing company, later Sweetheart Cup Company.
Paul-
The following was taken from a web site devoted to this statue (a local favorite of mine)…
“The Smoke Signal has been a Lincoln Landmark for over 70 years. In 1934, Ellis Burman, an Omaha sculptor received funding from the Works Progress Administration Program to create a sculpture for Lincoln's new Pioneer Park. Working in an unheated vacant building at the state fairgrounds he formed a 15 foot clay model of a Native American, pulling a blanket away from a fire, to produce a smoke signal. A mold was made and reassembled at the park site. Cement was poured into the mold and was colored with red oxide to give it a bronze color. The completed sculpture weighs 5 tons.
The sculpture is a memorial for Nebraska Native American tribes. Its dedication in 1935 was attended by over 100 native Americans, including chiefs from the Omaha, Winnebago, Sioux, and Ponca Tribes, who in full dress sat on their horses atop the hillside facing the setting sun.”
The usual suspects: Olympus E500; 14.0mm-45.0mm (f3.5) lens at 29mm focal length; 1/60 sec. at f16; ISO 400; handheld.
The following was taken from a web site devoted to this statue (a local favorite of mine)…
“The Smoke Signal has been a Lincoln Landmark for over 70 years. In 1934, Ellis Burman, an Omaha sculptor received funding from the Works Progress Administration Program to create a sculpture for Lincoln's new Pioneer Park. Working in an unheated vacant building at the state fairgrounds he formed a 15 foot clay model of a Native American, pulling a blanket away from a fire, to produce a smoke signal. A mold was made and reassembled at the park site. Cement was poured into the mold and was colored with red oxide to give it a bronze color. The completed sculpture weighs 5 tons.
The sculpture is a memorial for Nebraska Native American tribes. Its dedication in 1935 was attended by over 100 native Americans, including chiefs from the Omaha, Winnebago, Sioux, and Ponca Tribes, who in full dress sat on their horses atop the hillside facing the setting sun.”
The usual suspects: Olympus E500; 14.0mm-45.0mm (f3.5) lens at 29mm focal length; 1/60 sec. at f16; ISO 400; handheld.
Kevin-
You may have heard of the Meerkat, which is a small mammal that normally lives at the southern end of sub-Saharan Africa. Meerkat’s are generally about 1 foot long, and they weigh about 1.7 pounds.
But The Living Desert in Palm Springs, CA, home to many interesting species, is home to a clan of Giant Meerkats. Giant Meerkats share little with their smaller relatives, except for part of their the name. Giant Meerkats, when they stand upright like this one, tower over other most species including the three giraffes that reside at the Living Desert.
In a clan, one Giant Meerkat always climbs up the the top of a mountain, hill or other lookout post, to keep watch, like this one is doing, while other Giant Meerkats play below. This lookout role is highly variable. Each Giant Meerkat takes turns at the position, so that in turn each one has time to play and frolic. Now, it’s not certain what the watching Giant Meerkat would actually be watching for, as potential predators, like the Tyrannosaurus Rex for example, haven’t been around for 65 million years or so.
Also interesting, is that there are some who speculate that the huge large number of tiny, tiny earthquakes that are constantly measured in Southern California by the USGS are not earthquakes at all, but footsteps from Giant Meerkats.
They don’t let you get close to Giant Meerkats, so to capture this imaged I needed to equip my Nikon D3s with a 70-200mm Nikkor lens set to 180mm, plus a 2x Nikon teleconverter (giving me a 360mm equivalent). The exposure was 1/250 of of a second at f/9. The ISO was 200.
You may have heard of the Meerkat, which is a small mammal that normally lives at the southern end of sub-Saharan Africa. Meerkat’s are generally about 1 foot long, and they weigh about 1.7 pounds.
But The Living Desert in Palm Springs, CA, home to many interesting species, is home to a clan of Giant Meerkats. Giant Meerkats share little with their smaller relatives, except for part of their the name. Giant Meerkats, when they stand upright like this one, tower over other most species including the three giraffes that reside at the Living Desert.
In a clan, one Giant Meerkat always climbs up the the top of a mountain, hill or other lookout post, to keep watch, like this one is doing, while other Giant Meerkats play below. This lookout role is highly variable. Each Giant Meerkat takes turns at the position, so that in turn each one has time to play and frolic. Now, it’s not certain what the watching Giant Meerkat would actually be watching for, as potential predators, like the Tyrannosaurus Rex for example, haven’t been around for 65 million years or so.
Also interesting, is that there are some who speculate that the huge large number of tiny, tiny earthquakes that are constantly measured in Southern California by the USGS are not earthquakes at all, but footsteps from Giant Meerkats.
They don’t let you get close to Giant Meerkats, so to capture this imaged I needed to equip my Nikon D3s with a 70-200mm Nikkor lens set to 180mm, plus a 2x Nikon teleconverter (giving me a 360mm equivalent). The exposure was 1/250 of of a second at f/9. The ISO was 200.