Fantastic photo > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Rick Womer > Sent: 02 December 2009 03:31 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO - Sculpture in the Desert > > The guy has clearly spent too much time in the sun. Well, > both the artist =and= the subject have spent too much time in the sun. > > It's a really good, nicely exposed, well-composed photo, though. > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > > > --- On Mon, 11/30/09, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > > > G'day all > > > > This is about as far removed from 'Sculptures by the Sea' > > as it's > > possible to get.... > > > > Dave Savage pesoed a photo from Lake Ballard in the Aus > outback about > > a year ago and I knew then that this was a place I had to > visit on my > > recent trip across to Western Australia. It required an > extra 600 km > > of driving but I don't regret a single metre. > > > > Over 50 sculptures are scattered around the lake bed and, although > > they look like stick figures, each one was actually modelled on a > > resident of the small town of Menzies. Each resident > stripped down to > > to the bare essentials and had a full body scan. > Polystyrene patterns > > were prepared from the scans with one important modification - each > > person's horizontal dimensions were reduced by two thirds. The > > patterns were finally used in the casting of the stainless steel > > figures. > > > > Anyway - here's one of the sculptures. The small hill is called > > 'Snake Hill'. Given that the shape of the hill looks > nothing like a > > snake, I can only assume that the name refers to to the hill's > > inhabitants - something I wasn't aware of before I climbed to the > > top.... > > > > > > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/184660/Sculpture_in_the_Desert.html > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > Brian > > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Brian Walters > > Western Sydney Australia > > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > -- > > > > > > -- > > http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an > > > > unladen european swallow > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions.
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