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W. C. Glass
Posted by grant (kansas city, United States) on 20 February 2009 in Miscellaneous and Portfolio.
Kansas City, Missouri
Rolleiflex
Tmax 100
Matt Sutton from Sydney, Australia
Its surreal almost Grant. Like a close up of a miniature. I mean this is simply stunning !
20 Feb 2009 6:04am
@Matt Sutton: i just made a similar comment about your picture 'angus 2.' thanks.
cat from Tel Aviv, Israel
The columns are rather grand, I wouldn't have guessed what it was without reading your tags. The shadows and tones make it feel like an old photograph of a preserved ruin.
20 Feb 2009 6:18am
RHYS from United Kingdom
is that in a cemetery? Weird. I love the Dof, do you know who or what W C Glass was?
20 Feb 2009 8:31am
@RHYS: yea, it's in a cemetery, but i have no idea who this guy was. the cemetery looks like it was for the rich and powerful. the surrounding neighborhood has definitely seen better days though.
Marcie from United States
Somehow never expected to see this kind of 'architecture' in Kansas. Wonderful image!
20 Feb 2009 12:44pm
dogilicious from Millerstown, PA, United States
Obviously one of the "haves." Nice frame and depth.
20 Feb 2009 1:53pm
david from columbus, ohio, United States
mr glass obviously made enough in live to provide handsomely in death...
a nice composition,
20 Feb 2009 2:25pm
Robert from Kingsville, Canada
Makes me wonder what his home was like? well done g.
20 Feb 2009 2:29pm
Chris Parr from Jefferson City, United States
There are a couple of these in the old city cemetery here. I also wonder what their houses must have looked like. Great shot of this one.
20 Feb 2009 2:53pm
daina from New York, United States
Solid and massive yet glass written on it – a bit incongruous! Wonderful framing but a very strange feeling – as if it were not quite real no matter how solid looking. Something diabolical about it, but because of that it is a terrific image.
20 Feb 2009 4:02pm
Don from spokane, United States
Those barred doors in this massive rock setting make a fine subject for a picture. Nice textures in the wood and stone work. Well done....again!
20 Feb 2009 5:07pm
Suzanne from Huntington Bch, California, United States
An excellent but seemingly incongruous image. The name "Glass" just doesn't go with all the stone.
20 Feb 2009 7:33pm
Nilla from Continent: Europe, Sweden
I agree with "Robert" this must have been a wealthy family. Perhaps
it is he who is the shadow to the right of the column, it looks like a face in silhouette.
Great photo, fine shadows and contrasts.
20 Feb 2009 9:31pm
@Nilla: thanks nilla. i hadn't noticed the face, but you're right - and it's just the sort of face you'd expect.
Bill from Belton, United States
Great texture and tonality coupled with superb light and shadows. A winner again Grant!
21 Feb 2009 12:02am
@Bill: thanks bill, appreciated, as always
GJC from Kyoto, Japan
This is impressive, and not just in the way the Glass family wanted us to see it. The strong shadow and the way you've given a view onto the rest of the cemetery makes it more solemn somehow. Is the Glass Family house still standing? It might make for the beginning of a nice little series: houses for the living and the dead.
21 Feb 2009 10:08am
@GJC: that's a very interesting idea. i have no idea. it's not a well know family currently, as far as i know.
lisa v from Gawler, Australia
A very well thought of man and/or very well off too. Well done Grant, very good photo.
21 Feb 2009 10:24am
michele from Canada
there is so much to see here but i'm glad for the relief work at the tops of the columns and over them
22 Feb 2009 1:26am
sherri from Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Must have been extremely wealthy.
22 Feb 2009 5:47am
Twelvebit from Victoria, United States
Transformational. This one looks like something beyond a contemporary photo of a mausoleum.
24 Feb 2009 4:05pm
