Michelangelo's David

Sheesh, TFC. I'd be lucky to get that sharp on a pod. You make that lovely old Rollei sing.

Beautiful tones in a clean and graceful composition.

Can't be David for obvious reasons...........

Photo Engineer said:

Can't be David for obvious reasons...........

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Well, if you mean because we can see his religion, there's a whole back story behind that. Michelangelo was creating the statue for an audience of 15th century Florentines, and so he made David rather modestly endowed and uncircumcised to depict this civic hero as being modest and virtuous, not prideful or lewd. And, despite the hero being a biblical Jew, Jews in the Renaissance weren't in the highest of favor, so you wouldn't want to go out of your way to call attention to that fact in a statue originally intended to be placed on a spur of the Duomo.

HiHoSilver said:

Sheesh, TFC. I'd be lucky to get that sharp on a pod. You make that lovely old Rollei sing.

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That's part of the reason for having a Rolleiflex - I've pulled off 1 second exposures with it hand-held. Not super sharp, but sharp enough.

Remarkable photograph - exemplary use of a TLR ...

Love your framing with the intersecting arches at the top, and isn't that statue just a wondrous thing.

Yes- the David really does look except for the hair of course as if he were really a live human being, not a carved block of stone.