(Another favorite... especially for the colors... )


(another one that I found almost alive... more for her hands and the pose than her face... I took many closeups of her hands and that flower, but none came out like I wanted... )


(The weathering on faces that look so real is sometimes disturbing... on this sculpture especially... )


(This one looks almost joyous... I'm almost tempted to take that branch stub out with photoshop though... but aside from a bit of color correction, I try not to do anything in photoshop. All of these shots have just been colorbalanced and resized... no cropping or other cheating... I'm an old fashioned photographer, I guess... )



(this one absolutely refused to come into focus for my damn camera. This was the best I got... it was almost like her modesty was working against me... )


(This was a huge sculpture as part of a war memorial in the cemetery. I think I took the photos of it too early, as I couldn't get the detail I wanted... this was the best I did. I do like the color of the early light though... )


(This one looks almost magical to me... another favorite... )



(I don't know why, but I really love the way this woman is being pulled at by the figures below... its almost an attack, and you want her to escape and fly away... though I doubt that is what the artist had in mind... )


(this was maybe my single favorite scultpure... her pose was somehow both sad and also erotic, her legs wide open wide and uncaring about being modest or ladylike... too absorbed in thought... the fact that she was pressed against smooth marble to give the reflection added to the complexity... as does the extreme weathering on her face and arms... )


(A better shot of her full pose... I could have taken photos of her all day, but by this time my batteries were starting to run a little low and I was afraid of running out then finding something else really great... )


( I liked her very much too, but again, was fighting with the camera to get a shot I liked in focus... )


(I really loved this mother's face, but the baby was horrible.. I was amazed the artist took so much care with her and then didnt get the child right, especially when the two of them were cheek to cheek... still, her closed eyes make me love life... )


(Much less detail than almost every other sculpture in the cemetery, but I loved the pose and the light coming through the trees.. even if I was fighting with the focus yet again... )

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