The Wreckers
by Shelley Neff
Title
The Wreckers
Artist
Shelley Neff
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The "The Wreckers" sculpture was created by James Mastin of Miami, Florida and is housed at Mallory Square’s Key West Historic Memorial Sculpture Garden (Key West, Florida, USA). The monument captures the essence of Key West as a bold, boisterous, and bustling sea town out on the frontier of young America as it depicts the wreckers immersed in their work of saving lives and freight from a shipping vessel that crashed into a nearby Key West reef. History shows the island’s first economy was based on wrecking as Key West became the richest city per capita in the U.S. during the mid 1800s due to the salvage fees received by the wrecking captains and crews, and ultimately the businessmen, lawyers, clerks, packers, dock hands, and insurance agents ashore. Image taken 2/8/11. Canon EOS Rebel T2i, 20mm, HDR/Tonemapping in Photomatix Pro, f/4.5, ISO 100, 3 exposures: -2, 0, +2, cropped in Photoshop
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March 9th, 2011
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