@stolenlife
what do you mean with better exposed?
some lights left and right? maybe some reflectorboards around?

:-))

I don't want to get into any arguments but the statue looks like a very dark metal, looking at the way the highlights are happening not sure how it could be exposed any more.

@TammyLynn
it's a monument in berlin called "neue wache"

ohhh OK, the building is called 'Neue Wache' or "New Watchhouse" The whole building is now a war memorial. The statue is an enlarged version of Käthe Kollwitz's sculpture 'Mother with her Dead Son'. The sculpture is directly under the oculus, and is exposed to the rain, snow and cold of the Berlin climate, symbolising the suffering of civilians during World War II.

Thanks Vernon, I like learning new things. :-)

I was looking at this at work, and the figure seemed a lot darker there than it does at home. Didnt mean ruffle any feathers..

Vern, stop hogging all of the stars man. Don't be greedy. :)

Holy cow that was fast.

Here's the story: the European Photoblogger's Meet-Up was in Berlin only THREE days ago. We were moving through the town as a rather large group, and about twenty-five of us squeezed into this memorial. At one point Juergen, one of the local Berlin bloggers who can come across like a tour-guide and museum official if he wants to, decided we needed more room and kicked all non-blogger tourists out by declaring it a closed event, and using a really official-sounding voice. He cleared the memorial in 60 seconds flat.

Vernon is hand-holding this shot, and using a very wide-angle lens. You don't realize that the rest of us are all packed up against the wall right next to him, getting our own shots of this.

This is hilarious.

And to give props to Vernon, he showed this shot to me right after he took it on his camera's display - and this was it. I doubt he did much cropping if any, and seems to have run a simple B&W conversion... and I'm not even sure it needs it.

Vernon, you are the man!

flatline, many thanks for the nice explanation :-)
as you already mentioned, no crop on this one, just b/w conversion. I did it in the blue channel to increase the overall "silver look" (specially on the statue)

@all
thanks for your feedback and the feature

Congrats Vernon ;)