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Tom’s World – 28AUG2024 – Statues – 5

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I don’t know the story of this group of statues except that they depict typical young people from an earlier era and are located in the common area of a downtown Pensacola residential area.

 

Admiral John Towers, Naval Aviator number 3. In 1914, then Lt. Towers was ordered to Pensacola to create the first training program for Naval Aviators.

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Obviously a Photoshop composite. This combines heavily modified elements of a bronze statue from the US Naval Air Museum and a scene from St. Michael’s Cemetery in Pensacola. St. Michaels contains graves from the 1700’s when Florida was a Spanish colony.

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Closeup of the Confederate Memorial Monument located in Arlington National Cemetery. I recently read that the storm clouds were gathering around this monument for it’s removal as, I suppose, a National disgrace.

Tom’s World – 28AUG2024 – Statues – 4

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Taken on a drizzly early spring day in Atlanta’s Westview Cemetery. This cemetery along with Oakland Cemetery about 3 miles east combined have so many fantastic photo subjects as to be a visual banquet. I can (and have) spent cumulative weeks just trying to see everything.

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No intro necessary for this one except it’s the real one. I get up the DC area every few years to visit my parents grave sites in Arlington Nation and took this on one of the trips.

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This amusing statue is located at the terminus of a bicycle trail in Alpharetta, Ga.

 

#19 Figurehead for the largest sailing vessel in current use, The Juan Sebastian De Alcano. Juan Sebastián de Elcano is a training ship of the Spanish Navy. It is a four-masted topsail, steel-hulled barquentine (schooner barque). At 113 metres (371 ft) long, it is the third-largest tall ship in the world, and is the sailing vessel that has sailed the furthest, covering more than 2,000,000 nautical miles (3,700,000 km; 2,300,000 mi) in its lifetime.

The JS De Alcano puts in to port in Pensacola for a visit every 4 years or so,

Tom’s World – 21AUG2024 – Statues – 3

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Jake, a monument to military divers. This statue is located on base at The US Navy Diver Training & Explosive Ordnance Training Center Panama City.

 

Coming home after a long deployment, located on base at NAS Pensacola, National Naval Air Museum.

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This monument is from the turn of the 19th-20th century and is located at Atlanta’s Westview Cemetery. I’ve seen lots of cemetery monuments and statues and think that this one is absolutely beautifully done.

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This one is a composite. The statue is behind St. Michael’s Episcopal in Milton, FL. I didn’t like the background in the original, it was too busy, towers, other decorations, phone poles, other buildings made a jarring and competing background and destroyed the impact of the statue. So, using Photoshop, I popped it into a photo taken from my house side door as a big storm approached. Much more effective.

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Unknown Infant. Every picture should tell a story, this one I think is poignant. I wonder who put the cat there? City Cemetery, Milton, FL.

 

Tom’s World – 14AUG2024 – Statues – 2

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This is Jasper Smith, currently “residing” in Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery in downtown Atlanta, across I-20 from the Braves old stadium. I don’t have any history for him though there is a Jasper, Georgia, though I have no idea if there’s a connection.. But Jasper sits on top of his very own mausoleum, mulling things over in mild consternation. And who wouldn’t aspire to such a state?

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This is one of the shots I took at a museum display of 18th & 19th century French art.

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Trisdan De Luna y Arellano, Conquistador and the founder of a Spanish colony at what in now Pensacola in 1559. Funny thing, I did a quick google of him to make sure I had the dates right and the lead article on google was using one of my pictures from this shoot as the lead without permission or attribution. Theoretically, that’s illegal but, I’ve found, common.

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This is a near life sized resin casting of a female that I found in the Porch Creek Indian casino in Atmore Al. The Porch Indians are an offshoot of their brother tribe, the BMW Indians. I absolutely do not have the “gambling bug” but my wife does. On the occasion I take her there, I wander around with my camera shooting interesting stuff of which there is a bunch while she’s hypnotized by the slots. The casino staff gets pretty quirky about cameras in the casino until I assure them that I’m shooting the facility, not the people.