Here's a couple of statues that I believe are uplifting. We should have more like this.

(grab shot)


After a few minutes, this is the shot I took to keep
Sheffield Women of Steel by Tony Evans, on Flickr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_of_Steel

I couldn't be from Newcastle and not have a photograph of this. It was built while I wasn't living in the city (I was in Sheffield when they started, as it happens), but it soon became an iconic part of the journey when returning home

There's no shot of this thing that hasn't been done, and when I was there it was really busy. These shots are from a time when my sister was very ill, not long before she died, and they remind me of her.

The Angel of the North by Tony Evans, on Flickr

The Angel of the North (2) by Tony Evans, on Flickr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_of_the_North

Bonus statue.

Diving Belle by Tony Evans, on Flickr

The Diving Belle in Scarborough. Quite recent too, 2007 I think, can't find anything specific on Wikipedia.

Looking again at my images, and I think actually, this one works better and would have been worth working on a bit more.

 

I have only been up to The Angel of The North once. Great sculpture.

I know it's different to what this thread is about, but have you been to the Yorkshire sculpture park?

 

One can always have living statues...



or fantasy statues...



Statues of one thing in honour of another...



Statues just to brighten up the architecture...



Statues celebrating yer actual technology...



...and of course, statues of incompetent generals...

 

No! Despite living so close and driving past it every now and then. We do intend to go, mobility is an issue though.

 

It's a bloody big park, and a lot of the sculptures are spread around. We spent hours there. If mobility is an issue then it may not be the best place (to see it all, anyway.)

 

I don't have my own picture, but there's a great statue just up the road of Jackie Crookston, local badass.

 

What about those marvellous glum faced angels that feature so predominantly in Victorian cemetries...

 

There's not many statues around here outside of the army camps and Longleat's grounds. The sculptor, Anthony Wilson is a neighbour and his 'Scraptor' installation is just across the field. I'll try and get some photos when these showers stop.

 

not forgetting the man in the street

DSCF2216.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

 

and his mate

DSCF2217.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

 

These have also been done to death, but honestly I've not yet seen a shot that makes you go "Ahhh!" in quite the same way as when you see them looming over the motorway when you drive past. In the flesh they are utterly magnificent.

 

We have nothing to worry about.




The Queen


Burns out of reach


Herring girl


Flora beside Inverness Castle - wishing she was home, I guess.

 

Statues can be ephemeral -

274A0138.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massa...al_in_Civic_Square,_Tranent,_East_Lothian.jpg

 

That's the one.

 

A smile if no more...

 

Women of Steel

This is where things can change depending on opinion

This could also be seen by some as sexist where is the companion male shot.

I am NOT personally stating that but some will, we have to be careful how we "politicise" all things

The Sun quoted a job hunter who was turned down from a junior scriptwriting role because it was only available to people from "ethnic minorities".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36443113

 

Can't find any innocent ones?

 

I thought you preferred no politics in your forum posting? But you seem to want to politicise my post about uplifting statues.

 

People brought it up in mine just responding in the same way no insult intended