Friday, June 17, 2011

Day 168 - Spotting the Beaverbrook Leopard

Jonathan Kenworthy did most of the work to make this fabulous photograph: he sculpted this beautiful leopard which now prowls outside the front doors of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in downtown Fredericton.

The Beaverbook Art Gallery is well known for its recent battle against the England-based Beaverbrook Trust over the ownership of a large number of very valuable paintings. We visited the Gallery for the first time a couple of weeks ago and it is a really impressive place.

Kenworthy's sculpture, appropriately title "The Leopard", guards the door, probably from more greedy Englishmen. And it provides the photographer with an excellent opportunity to practice his composition: how do I make this really powerful sculpture look new and different?

It looks great with a brilliant blue sky as background but I was especially pleased with this framing: the Leopard against a mottled forest scene.

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