Monument Thread
 

A very nice crisp clear picture - thank you.
We have had a Statue thread just started - I don't know if you should slip over onto that one as this is strictly a Statue, unless of course there are some monuments to follow...

Ooo, I didn't use the right word. Sorry. :D

I'll see the Statue thread.

Thanks.

Love the 3-d effect -- very strong.

The shadow is, I find, a little distracting -- but a strong compositional effect!

Thank you.

Nice shot. You might want to tell us who this is. ;)

It's Filip Visnjic (1767-1834), a blind guslar* (what Homer is to ancient Greeks, that Filip Visnjic is to Serbian people).

The whole monument was made by Djordje Jovanovic in 1904 and is located in Krusevac, Serbia.

*guslar
plural Guslari, any of a group of popular narrative singers of the Balkans who inherit a tradition that dates from the 17th century. Guslari are among the few performers continuing the oral tradition of epic poetry in the West and serve as transmitters and interpreters of a repertory of song and epic. Most of their songs are about the era of Turkish rule and were handed down by teachers…

*gusle
also called gusla, a Balkan one-stringed bowed instrument, whose single string is made of thirty horsehairs. The string is only touched, not depressed, so that only harmonics are sounded. It is held between the legs with the long neck supported on one thigh. Today, in Serbian, the gusle is known for having a small tonal and dynamic range, being not very expressive and rather difficult to master, and used today exclusively as a support for reciting ancient epics.

Best regards,
Stojan Sljivic

Nelsons Column
 

Nelsons Column early October, in a rain storm. The usual Kodak DX4530, didnt see the second rainbow untill after I got it onto my laptop.

Little dark over all, but was more worried about keeping dry ;)

http://www.print-digital.info/featur...sons-colum.jpg

The same monument from another angle.

A great description. Informative with brevity. That's the kind of info I like to see posted...

Thanks.

Nice shot. Rainbows are always a bonus...Any other info... like where this is?