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19 July 2006 SRW

Walking with the Madonna
19 July 2006 (306)

Salisbury, UK

On the lawn surrounding Salisbury Cathedral
-- and facing you as you enter the Close from the High Street --
is a life-size bronze statue by Elisabeth Frink, entitled 'Walking Madonna'.

A sculpture of the Virgin Mary striding purposefully towards the city,
it was placed here in 1981: a timeless reminder of the woman
to whom the cathedral is dedicated.

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Messing around with low light and high ISO settings, tonight....
(The bottom two shots are from 'the archive', by the way.)

               






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Guest 22-Jul-2006 09:39
I've just checked some unpublished photos. Exactly 52 minutes later, I was there!
(I'd been at Amesbury photographing a friend fishing - thought I'd have a look at the cathedral before returning home!)
Great crop on this one!
Bill Harris20-Jul-2006 20:45
Good creative shot, well done.
Johnny JAG20-Jul-2006 20:26
Looking at all that scaffold I suspect there's an element of rebuilding going on.
Christine P. Newman20-Jul-2006 20:18
Interesting idea. Although she seems a bit far, we can imagine her strolling with the others. They should have made her not so dark and somewhat shorter to blend better in the crowd.
Doug Kessler20-Jul-2006 01:52
thanks for the intro. what a great place you are in to have so many photo opportunities.