Daily Random Photos - ONE PIX PER DAY - 2014 (d30, picture, sculpture)

[elnina]

The statue is a re-creation of the 1949 sculpture at the Omaha Beach Memorial in France that commemorates soldiers who died on Normandy Beach.
The original was created in 1949 by American sculptor Donald Harcourt De Lue for The Omaha Beach Memorial in France to commemorate D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, which was a turning point in WWII, and stands in France at Normandy Cemetery, which holds close to 10,000 dead Americans. It represents the naked souls of slain GIs, rising from the surf of Omaha Beach, after being killed by the Nazis. In Glendale, CA rather than overlook the Normandy beaches, this statue overlooks Urban Outfitters and a Cheesecake Factory.
The Spirit of American Youth statue stands 18 feet tall, and weighs more than 2,500 pounds, is completely covered in 22-carat gold leaf, and is probably the largest gilded statue in the country.

[jessxwrites89]

[Lodestar]

[EA]

[mike1003]

[EA]

Man, ^ that ceiling is impossible to properly capture in one shot.

Either too dark, blown out, or both.

[Timm]

Jack in black

[Lamplight]

At the Alaska Ferry Terminal.

[Lodestar]

Very nice, Timm. I've got one of those who gets the deer-in-the-headights look when the camera comes out also:

[mike1003]

The problem is that the glass sculptures are each so large, colored dark to light and strongly backlit