UK - London 24in24 - A girl a dolphin and a bridge_mono_5006447
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Taken during the recent 'London 24in24' event, albeit whilst I went off-piste in the afternoon for a few hours. Despite being mid-Summers day the sky was overcast and grey so I opted for a moody monochrome treatment for this shot of the David Wynne 'Girl and a dolphin' sculpture adjacent to Tower Bridge.
Unfortunately for the first time ever I had to leave just over twelve hours into the 24hr event but a big thanks to Will Cheung (and Annie) for organising it and fingers crossed we'll get to do it all again next Summer.
Click here to see more from this event and previous Photo24 events : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157667520181380
For those anywhere near London, you can find details of the next London Flickr Group Photowalk on Saturday July 20th here : www.flickr.com/groups/londonflickrgroup/discuss/721577219...
From artsy.net, "Three years later, a larger version was installed in London on the north bank of the Thames near Tower Bridge and became one of the capital's most recognized and best-loved sculptures along with Wynne's Boy with a Dolphin (1975), which is to be found beside the Albert Bridge in Chelsea. David Wynne was a self-taught sculptor who initially studied zoology at Cambridge. As author David Elliott noted in his book, 'Boy with a Dolphin : The Life and Work of David Wynne', "His love of drawing animals and birds was all-consuming. He remembers constantly observing what he saw around him, seized with a growing conviction that his future life's work would somehow be involved with the natural world" . The artist was meticulous with his practice, always working from life to study the people, animals and birds he portrayed. To capture the experience of swimming with a dolphin he spent hours under water watching and interacting with the animals in both California, and the Dolphinarium in London."
© D.Godliman
UK - London 24in24 - A girl a dolphin and a bridge_mono_5006447
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
Taken during the recent 'London 24in24' event, albeit whilst I went off-piste in the afternoon for a few hours. Despite being mid-Summers day the sky was overcast and grey so I opted for a moody monochrome treatment for this shot of the David Wynne 'Girl and a dolphin' sculpture adjacent to Tower Bridge.
Unfortunately for the first time ever I had to leave just over twelve hours into the 24hr event but a big thanks to Will Cheung (and Annie) for organising it and fingers crossed we'll get to do it all again next Summer.
Click here to see more from this event and previous Photo24 events : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157667520181380
For those anywhere near London, you can find details of the next London Flickr Group Photowalk on Saturday July 20th here : www.flickr.com/groups/londonflickrgroup/discuss/721577219...
From artsy.net, "Three years later, a larger version was installed in London on the north bank of the Thames near Tower Bridge and became one of the capital's most recognized and best-loved sculptures along with Wynne's Boy with a Dolphin (1975), which is to be found beside the Albert Bridge in Chelsea. David Wynne was a self-taught sculptor who initially studied zoology at Cambridge. As author David Elliott noted in his book, 'Boy with a Dolphin : The Life and Work of David Wynne', "His love of drawing animals and birds was all-consuming. He remembers constantly observing what he saw around him, seized with a growing conviction that his future life's work would somehow be involved with the natural world" . The artist was meticulous with his practice, always working from life to study the people, animals and birds he portrayed. To capture the experience of swimming with a dolphin he spent hours under water watching and interacting with the animals in both California, and the Dolphinarium in London."
© D.Godliman