A little romance and a wishing well

Snow White's Fairy Tale Garden at Disneyland is situated similarly to the Magic Kingdom's, but featured these beautiful statues in a pond across from the wishing well. Disney legend hath it that Walt received these statues from an anonymous carver (in Germany, I think), and thought they were so beautiful that they should be displayed in his park. However, due to a possible error on the part of the carver, Snow White was carved at the same height as all the dwarves, which is out of scale. To remedy the problem, they placed Snow White at the top and put a smaller deer beside her. The deer in combination with the height makes her look taller than the dwarves, though they are actually the same size if you look at them.

 

Legend further has it that after John Hench died, his secretary was cleaning out his office and found an old invoice for these very statues. So John Hench actually had them commissioned, then donated anonymously. Why? The reason died with him :)

 

This shot started out as landscape, but was too busy and had a railing in the foreground. I cropped it to change the orientation, leaving in some head room to give the display height. I darkened the highlights (maybe it needs more?), boosted the saturation, and here she is.

Done