Extreme close up on the face of a bronze statue of a woman, eyes closed, face relaxed as though in deep slumber. The tepid yellow glow of a late autumn sunrise brushes the right side of her face and her hair, turning the latter a bronze blonde.
A bronze statue of a woman in a long dress with a square neck and thick skirts, lit up in a light yellow sunrise. She holds a long sword against her thigh, tentative fingers holding on to its blade. Her other hand balances an oblong object on a pedestal on her thigh, only her index finger and thumb holding on to it. The background is dominated by a stout column of stone held together by white paste; on it is thrown a shadow of the statue as seen from a different angle: the sun creates a shadow that turns this youthful young woman into an older woman, tired and weary from decades of life. (Author note: I'm someone who often purged older photos with impunity as I improved. So it says something that this is one of those that survived 12 years of purges.)
Close up of a statue of a woman, head and shoulders visible, discoloured green by the ages, the copper weathered away to a lichen green by a century of oxygen exposure (and possibly acid attacks.) Despite the damage to her exterior, the statue's face maintains a kind of calm, looking off to the side, just above and to the left of the viewer. Behind her, green leaves - already showing the tell-tale colours of autumn in a leaf here and another there - dominate the expanse of the winter-blue sky with nary a cloud in sight.
Statue photography I took back in 2014, which was... *checks notes* 12 years ago already?! 😱From #QueensGardens in #DunedinNZ #NewZealand #Otepoti #statues #statuephotography #photography
