Statue, Corinth

Comments, ratings appreciated--thanks

Very intersting solitary statue!

A statue of a robe? Some may be bothered by the fact this statue has no head or hands. Personally, it's what I find most interesting.

 

I like the way the stone of the statue is so light and polished compared to the darker, rough textured, stone blocks surrounding it. The yellow wildflowers are a nice bonus.

 

Your composition is impeccable. This appears to have a slight clockwise tilt but it's probably just the way the blocks have settled. I would hate for what's left of the statue to tumble over.

 

Looking at this, I can imagine how this scene might have looked in it's hey day. Do you know the function of this particular site?

 

 

Biliana and Laurie, thanks for your comments. I was troubled some by the various ways some of the blocks were slanting. Now I can see I should have rotated everything a degree or two counter-clockwise. Corinth was originally a Greek city, but most of the visible remains are Roman: they built a fairly large town on this site. Corinth is also famous later Biblical references. I like the photo a lot and will re-load and edited version of this later.

Nicely done.

Thanks Sarah!

I like this shot, and one could not have expected less from the Dr. in you ;-)

In addition to my endemic liking of defaced statues, the contrast of the different decay of the walls and the marbles adds lots of tension in this otherwise static composition.

The yellow flower and the light grass which have slowly taken their places in the ruins add to the image, adding some soft spots to the heavily textured walls and the classical folds of the robe of the statue.

A single item I am perplexed about is the location of the tree... it is slightly too close to the statue and seems almost to be picking up from where the missing head should be. As a matter of fact, I would like to hear your interpretation of the tree altogether. Is is just a compositional background? Shall we see it towering above the ruins like warning of the fact that eventually nature will eat it away should one stop manteinance altogether?

Salvatore, this was shot at near to 300mm and so the objects are compressed and seem closer together than they really are. The tree was fairly close to the wall and I can see how the might follow up the statue and then up the tree trunk. I guess I should have composed this a little differently.

 

Like you, I have a real liking of this type of shot--it's actually one of my two or three favorites in this folder.