13/01/2017Taswegian1957

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge


Sculptures, Statues & Carvings

This week Cee has asked to see sculptures, statues and carvings. I always find these things interesting to photograph so here are a few from my archives which I have converted to black and white for this challenge. In some of them I have used the coloured filter feature on my photo editing software and for one I used the sepia tone instead.

Australian Comedian Roy Rene (Mo),
Australian Comedian Roy Rene (Mo), Hindley St, Adelaide

 

Hairy Maclairy sculpture in Tauranga, New Zealand
Hairy Maclary sculpture in Tauranga, New Zealand

 

Playful statue of a giraffe at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) , Federation Square , Melbourne. Black and white with Cyan filter effect.
Playful statue of a giraffe at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) , Federation Square , Melbourne. Black and white with Cyan filter effect.
Metal sculpture on Sandgate Bridge , Melbourne. Black and white with Cyan filter effect.
Metal sculpture on Sandgate Bridge , Melbourne. Black and white with Cyan filter effect.

 

Gargoyle
Gargoyle

I spotted this old gargoyle statue on a wall when I was walking from Potts Point to Rushcutters Bay in Sydney. Here I have used the sepia tone feature.

Queen Victoria statue
Queen Victoria statue outside the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney
Wood carving at a competion in Geeveston 2010
Wood carving at a competiton in Geeveston 2010

Taswegian1957

I was born in England in 1957 and lived there until our family came to Australia in 1966. I grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where I met and married my husband, David. We came together over a mutual love of trains. Both of us worked for the railways for many years, his job was with Australian National Railways, while I spent 12 years working for the STA, later TransAdelaide the Adelaide city transit system. After leaving that job I worked in hospitality until 2008. We moved to Tasmania in 2002 to live in the beautiful Huon Valley. In 2015 David became ill and passed away in October of that year. I currently co-write two blogs on WordPress.com with my sister Naomi. Our doll blog "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls", and "Our Other Blog" which is about everything else but with a focus on photographs and places in Tasmania. In November 2019 I began a new life in the house that Naomi and I intend to make our retirement home at Sisters Beach in Tasmania's northwest. Currently we have five pets between us. Naomi's two dogs Toby and Teddy and cats, Tigerwoods and Panther and my cat Polly. My dog Cindy passed away aged 16 in April 2022.

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  1. These are all such great entries! My favorites are the Hairy Maclary sculpture, the giraffe, and the wood carving at the bottom.

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    • Most of them were taken on my previous camera, a Nikon L120 compact camera. The oldest one of the woodcarving was probably taken with the little Fujifilm camera I had before that. Currently I use a Pentax KR10 as I broke the Nikon. When I do this challenge I often make a copy of the picture I want to use and crop it before turning it black and white so it is different from the original.

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