Month: September 2013 (page 2 of 4)

Another shot of The Great Arrow by sculptor Michael Jones.  I posted another photo of this work using a wide angle lens.  In that photo, I was just outside the door of the Community Center.  In this one, I’ve over by the library, looking back among and between the lights.

This sculpture is Chauncey the Rabbit, by Jim Budish.  It was donated in 2004 by Jackie and Jerry Miles.  Chauncey resides in front of the Fountain Hills Library.

The photo, below, was my original edit.  I showed it to Linda – she thought that the background distracted from the subject of the photo, which is supposed to be the sculpture of the rabbit.  So I created a new version, above, which uses an out-of-focus background in addition to making the background a lot darker, which helps to emphasize the subject.

I still like the photo below.  In the full size version, it’s possible to zoom in and read titles of the books in the library.  It’s also closer to how the scene looked when I shot it.

Circle of Peace was created by sculptor Gary Price. According to the page for this work at the Fountain Hills Public Art site, it was donated in 2007 by the Fountain Hills Realtors and Friends.

Marilyn helped me with this photo.  It was composed from eighteen different exposures.  I took five or six shots without flash to get the fountain and background at a number of different exposure levels, but only used one of them for the result above.  We took twenty shots of the sculpture, but I only ended up using seventeen of them.  I carried the flash stand around the artwork to illuminate it from different angles while Marilyn triggered the shutter with the remote.  (It’s best not to touch the camera in between exposures.)  I used the “Lighten Only” layer mode to combine all of the flash-lit exposures and then used the usual blending techniques to combine those with the background.

The work, titled A Letter from Grandma, was created by sculptor Marianne Caroselli. According to the Fountain Hills Public Art page for this sculpture, it was “donated to the Town of Fountain Hills by a number of doting grandparents” in 2008.

Potato Man was sculpted by Susan Geissler.  It was donated in 2008 by Tom and Tina Duffy in loving memory of Martin and Virginia Duffy.

This work, by Randy Hand, is titled Need A Lift.  (It’s called The Lifting Bench at the artist’s site.)  According to the placard, it was installed in 2009 and was made possible by donations from the Fountain Hills One Percent For Public Art Fund and the Fountain Hills Cultural and Civic Association.

It’s a piece of functional art in that it can be used as a bench.

This sculpture is Joy of Music by George Lundeen.  It was donated in 2007 by Jackie and Jerry Miles to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.

This sculpture, titled Good News, was created by George Lundeen.  It depicts a paper boy in the company of his faithful and loving dog.  It was donated in 2012 in honor of L. Alan Cruikshank, celebrating his 65th birthday, by numerous family and friends.

The Enduring Family was created by sculptor Jeff Laing.  It can be seen at the east side of the community center courtyard.  It was donated in 2003 by The Fountain Hills Civic Association, The Sunridge Foundation, and eight other contributors (see below).

Here is a close-up of the placard, showing all of the donators.