Sunset at Madison Square Park.
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Love it, Ellen! What a dramatic photograph! The perspective of the gigantic pensive head juxtaposed with the tiny water tower; a feeling of the Far East combined with a hint of urban landscape – and all at dusk. Great imagery.
Awesome shot! Eerie and cool at the same time.
This is both dramatic and whimsical and so unusual. I love the title!
Wow! For some reason, this reminds me of the Savannah Bird Girl Statue, very Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil right in our home town. Haunting.
Thanks Anne. Actually not my title, although it does seem to fit; rather the title of the sculpture which stands 44 feet tall and is named for the Greek nymph (according to label information in the park).
Love this night shot! Like a Magritte, with the dreamy girl silhouetted against the dark foliage and evening sky. Even the 3 lighted windows under the water tower seem portentous.
Thanks Simone. I don’t see any physical resemblance, but Echo does depict a nine-year old girl, lost in a state of thoughts and dreams, much as the Savannah Bird Girl represents an eight year old girl with a contemplative expression.
It is the perfect time of day to take this picture. Any darker and the background silhouettes would have been lost. Without them your eye would lack a place to look once you’ve seen the sculpture and interest would be lost. Any earlier and you would have missed the dramatic uplighting on the sculpture. If the photograph had been of the whole body, it would be obvious that the sculpture’s height made it necessary to light it from below. Instead, you chose to show just the elongated head. Subconsciously the viewer sees the unusual lighting and the distorted proportions of the head and feels something is strange but can’t say why, hence the descriptions: “haunting”, “eerie”, “dreamy”, “unusual”, “whimsical”. There is another effect of the disembodied head. When I first saw it, I thought it was Buddha instead of a girl. I guess Scott had a similar feeling since he mentions the Far East. That temporary misidentification is another source of the photograph’s otherworldliness. You have great instincts for creating mystery, Ellen.
Thanks Cheryl for your insightful comments. Wish I could take credit for the “disembodied head” but in fact the sculpture is of the head only. It itself has a mystery about it; I enhanced it by focusing on the water tower and lights on the left and taking the shot at sunset.
fabulous shot!….very surreal and a great ‘mood’ shot…love the scale juxtaposition of the head and the water tower….good job!
I love the time of day of the shot, especially the way that you’ve captured the color “echoes” (the blue of the sky and on the top of the head and the yellow of the windows and the bottom of the head) This really heightens the drama of the whole photograph.