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19-Nov-2011 AKMC

20067 Spindrift (18)

Bondi, NSW

More technically, "Spindrift and anonymous spectator".

Bronwyn Berman's stainless steel, timber, aluminium and stone creation "represents the actions of wind and water". This was in fact the last shot that I took that day, on my way back to Bondi. It was on the lower track below Mark's Park, so I hadn't seen it on the first leg of my trip. By that time the sun was scattering its light though the clouds and all across the ocean making the whole place a glare festival, as is painfully obvious. Had I had time to do so I may have tried using a circular polarising filter here, but it was academic since by this time of the morning it was almost impossible to shoot this work anyway. The only place to do it from was the other side of the walking path and there were people flowing along it constantly. Essentially I just set up the shot and grabbed it in between walkers... and still ended up with someone in frame looking straight at me. So I figured eh, what the hey, it gives the sculpture some human context. Accordingly I left her in rather than cropping.

Canon EOS 40D ,Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
1/2000s f/8.0 at 40.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
Mairéad25-Nov-2011 21:06
Actually the figure works well in this, her hat has the same see-through quality as the sculpturel
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