Libertas The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, an Italian-French sculptor, and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad. Captured handheld from a moving boat with Canon 5DMK3 and Canon 70-300mm lens. The rest happened in my imagination. Processed with Lightroom 4.4, Photoshop 5.1 & CC, Nik Software suite of plugins. I used Wacom Intuos 3 tablet & HP portable workstation running Windows 7 x64 https://500px/photo/89886457/libertas-by-beno-saradzic?from=user_library
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:04:54 +0000
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