A sea of steel (statue park) + Final lot part 4

Yesterday I visited the sculpture park "Een Zee van Staal" (A sea of steel) in the dune area of Wijk aan Zee. It is in the backyard om my employer since 1999, but I had never been there before.
It was openened in 1999 by the queen when Wijk aan Zee was 'Cultural village of Europe" The sculptures are made by artists from all over Europe. Obvioulsy all objects are inspired by Steel and the Sea and located in between them.

I'll start with some shots of a number of sculptures.

Although I have converted most in B&W as well, this first set will be presented in color.

#1


#2 "De poort" (The Gate), added at a later stage


#3 "La casa di mare"


#4 "The messenger"


#5 "Zonder titel" ("untitled") in the front


#6 "Corus: Arie, Piet, Loes, Henk en Ludwig"


#7 "Insh’Allah"


#8 "Thalassa apo atsali"


#9 "Playing Waves"


#10 "White rythm"


#11 "Esperanza" in the front right


#12 "Au dela des Vagues"


#13 "Die leeren Augen der Sprachlosigkeit"


#14 "Zonder titel"((Untitled)


#15 "Zonder titel"((Untitled)


Obviously this place offered great opportunities for details and abstracts as well, which are to follow in a next episode.

All shot for the classic prime challenge week 2 (35mm) with Allfotar 2.8/35mm (which I used for the first time) or the Primagon 4.5/35mm.

TFL and C&C welcome as usual.



Edited by Fred_S - 24 July 2018 at 21:56

Your comments are much appreciated Harald!
It was an inspiring place indee d and needed that as well for the Classic Prime challenge after a couple of days with desparate shots.

Thanks for pointing out the WB issue. ##3.6.7 have been replaced now.

Let me shine a little light on the border mystery
In general I like a border to seperate the pictures from the dark background here, and to put emphasis on the centre/subject.

I still don't have a good workflow to add borders though, except for my BW version,
Those conversions are generally done in Silver FX Pro 2, where I use a pre-defined border. So for BW they are all the same

For the colourpics I add the borders manually afterwards in the Flickr photo editor. Try to use similar size for each, but:
There is no scale indicator on the slider, and since you have to do them one by one, it is sometimes a bit of a guess about the right size. Especially when I work on my tablet instead of my PC to publish here. Using the slider on the tablet is a bit annoying.
When I use very thin borders, there is simply a lack of space since the border is placed inside the picture and not added outside it. When I use a thick border, there is usually something disturbing in the original picture to hide behind it
Hopefully this solves the mystery a bit. In the meantime I am still looking for a better workflow to add borders in or after PP in LR.

Lovely shots. For me #2 has the most impact because of the composition with that distant factory between the gate. Probably luck, but the cloud that seems to come from the left tower of the gate certainly adds something.
In #8 i had the idea the angle isn't the best because of the large building in the background. TFS Fred .

Edited by MichelvA - 22 July 2018 at 19:01

Thanks for the comments Michele. The cloud was luchk indeed.

I see your point about #8. The orientation of the object was such that the large building was behind it. I took it like this intentionally since the big building is the steel plant (producing 7 million tons of steel pe annum). It seemed appropriate to include it in the picture given the theme of the statue park, but I should have explained that in my post.
However, here's another view on #8. Hope you like
That.
#16

Ouch! Apologies for that, i was not fully awake when i wrote it. Sunday before coffee made me confuse you with Snegren .
The view of the subject in 16 is much better for my taste, but it also shows that black and white works extremely well for this. Maybe also for the other subjects above. Thanks Fred .

Hugely appealing colour images Fred, carefully composed. And although I like the warmth of your vintage glass, the B&Ws steal the show for me. Eagerly awaiting part 3.
Paul

Thanks Michele and Paul. Part 3 is on its way!