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Featured in BIG (Response #78)

Featured 432 Days Ago by klimin_a_s - - 14 comments

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Ana said 432 days ago:

yay!! something BIG!!!

ChriZ said 432 days ago:

Woa, huuuge! Well framed!
High marks!

... what's her name?

JIMJIM said 432 days ago:

WOW !!

CraigMartin said 432 days ago:

That is big! Where is this? Is that supposed to Joan d'Arc? In terms of the shot, I think it could have benefitted from some greater contrast and saturation in the area of the grass.

philippe said 432 days ago:

Big lady! Is that in Russia?

dennis said 432 days ago:

Holy smokes. That's a big woman. Didn't see the people in the thumbnail and thought it was just a fairly average size statue that had been taken from an low angle to give it some grandure. Got quite a surprise when I opened up the full sized image. I get the central composition, but I'd be interested to see other takes with the statue not centred.

King said 432 days ago:

Whoa, baby!

King said 432 days ago:

Okay, Andrew, lay your hand on the WeeklyShot rule book and swear that this is not a Photoshop composite. How in the world could a statue that big support itself? Is it made out of papier-mache or fiberglas?

Otherwise, tell me where it is because I want to go there and gawk.

King said 432 days ago:

I looked it up. Blizzard is correct...located in Volgograd (was Stalingrad). 270 feet tall vs. the Statute of Liberty (not counting the base) at 151 feet.

Astounding.

klimin_a_s said 432 days ago:

Featured! Wow! Thank you very much!

This is a statue of Motherland in Volgograd. The shot is taken this summer. This is a fragment of the Mamaev Kurgan Memorial, what is devoted to Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943. It is very important fight in WWII. You can read about it on the Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamayev_Kurgan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad

klimin_a_s said 432 days ago:

@ChriZ: I don't know, what is her name...

@King: The material of the statue is reinforced concrete, not a papier-mache.

ChriZ said 432 days ago:

@klimin, you at least have her number? =)
Allthough she has this sword,... and I haven't had any good experiences lately with those spiky things!

... nevermind

... it's late, early, gotta go sleep now.

phototext said 430 days ago:

That's what I call a statue.

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