Featured Work
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roland pumpkin by Cheryl Dunning
The Pumpkin was built to commemorate the Centennial of Roland in 1990. It was built in honour of the Pumpkin King, Edgar VanWyck, who raised pumpkins that rated his name and the town in the Guiness Book of Records. His largest pumpkin was 560 kg. / Additional Information: The Toews bent 14 steel rods into rounded segments in the shape of a pumpkin. They bolted them together at the top and at the bottom with large steel plates. It was then covered with wire mesh and moved to the next town where a company made sailboats. Here it was covered with bright orange fibreglass, then brought back to the Toews farm where they attached a painted green stem made out of a household dryer vent. The pumpkin is hollow. The pumpkin cost $7,287.14.
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Beaverlodge Beaver by Vickie Emms
Featured in Town Giants September 17, 2009 This giant beaver is located in Beaverlodge, Alberta. Beaverlodge celebrated its 75th Anniversary of incorporation on July 21, 2004, and part of the celebration included the unveiling of a Giant Beaver Sculpture. / The sculpture is 15 feet high, 28 feet long and weighs 3000 pounds. Beaverlodge is located in Northwestern Alberta, way up the Alaska highway. / (http://www.beaverlodge.ca)
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The Wine Is Chilled by Gregory Ewanowich
Ok, So it’s not real ! This sculpture sits on the Balcony of the Sunset Bistro at Summerhill Pyramid Winery in South Kelowna. As you can see the weather is cold and snowy this year in the valley, but it should be a great year for the ice wine industry here. Our local wines are now winning numerous medals for their quality and finish, in world competition, and are growing in popularity all around the world. This photo was taken Dec.26, 2008.
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Jamestown Buffalo by Teresa Zieba
Featured in Town Giants – Sep 13th, 2009 Location: Jamestown, North Dakota / Height: 26 feet / Length: 46 feet / Weight: 60 tons / Construction Materials: steel beams, wire mesh, stucco, and cement / Special Designation: World’s Largest Buffalo / Year Built: 1959 Jamestown Buffalo was the first true giant roadside sculpture built in North Dakota. / The World’s Largest Buffalo was the brainchild of then Jamestown Chamber President Harold Newman and was created by Jamestown College art instructor Elmer Paul Peterson. It was fabricated out of 8 inch steel beaming, 3/8 inch reinforcing rod, 1/4 inch wire mesh, and gunnite (sprayed cement). / The buffalo was officially dedicated by Presidential Candidate Nelson Rockefeller in October of 1959. In 1965, “Frontier Village”, an old west town, was built next to the World’s Largest Buffalo sculpture. Some of the sights at Frontier Village include a grocery store, wishing well, Midland and Northern Pacific caboose, school house, church, barber shop, jail house, mine shaft, printing shop, post office, train depot, log cabin, art salon, souvenir shop, and fire department with three old fire trucks.
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sheep by Peta Hurley-Hill
My children posing with the big marino Goulburn,NSW
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Swan River's Swan by MaeBelle
Swan River Manitoba’s town statue / /
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Mastodon by zahnartz
For years, Stewiacke, Nova Scotia, has been known as the town which was “half way between the Equator and the North Pole”. Then, in 1991, in a gypsum quarry in nearby Milford, the body of an intact mastodon was discovered. / I was contacted by the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History to explain why some of the mastodon’s teeth were pink: animals which are drowned and die in a head-down position and people who are hanged experience highly increased blood pressure to the head. Occasionally, the pressure causes the tiny capillaries in the teeth to leak, letting the red colorant from the blood into the dentin of the teeth. This causes the teeth to appear pink. / Later, a statue to commemorate the discovery of the mastodon was erected next to Exit 11 on the #102 highway at Stewiacke in Mastodon Ridge park, a local community park. / This photo was taken with my Canon Eos Rebel XSi DSLR and the Canon 18-55mm kit lens.
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Chadwick Ram, Fort Nelson, BC by Vickie Emms
Top 6 in a Challenge in Town Giants and Featured – September 13, 2009
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The Big Rocking Horse, Gumeracha by Brett Stevenson
The Big Rocking Horse, Gumeracha, South Australia is the Number 1. Big Aussie Icon in Australia as judged by www.wotif.com.au Adjacent to the Rocking Horse is a wooden toy factory. Visitors can climb to the top of the horse. Note the person’s head looking over the top. GPS 1 Adelaide – Mannum Rd Gumeracha SA Top 10 winner with The Big Rocking Horse, Gumeracha in Town Giants SEPTEMBER 09
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Mahishasura by IndraniGhose
Shot taken at Chamundi hills of Mysore. The giant statue is at the entrance of the Chamundi Devi temple which is dedicated to Goddess Durga. It was slightly foggy the day we visited. Mahishasura’s father Rambha the king of the asuras (demons). He once fell in love with a water buffalo; Mahishasura was born out of this union. Mahishasur was thus able to change between human and buffalo form at will. He was blessed by Brahma that no man or God would ever be able to kill him. Proud and armed with this boon, he attacked Gods and drove them out of Heaven. Disturbed by this Gods hit upon a plan to finish him off. They created his nemesis in the form of a young woman, Durga (a form of Shakti or Parvati). Goddess Durga killed him after nine days of fighting, on the tenth day of waxing moon. This is celebrated as Durga Puja in Eastern India. Featured in Statues and Such in June 2009. Featured in Town Giants in Sept 2009.
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Ed Galloways Totem Pole by Samantha Dean
Taken with a Sony Alpha A-100 DSLR. Foyil Oklahoma. / Touted as the Worlds Largest Totem Pole. This structure was built by Ed Galloway, who started construction of the Totem Pole in 1937 and finished in 1948. The totem pole is constructed of concrete over a scrap metal and sandstone rock skeleton. Sixty feet tall, six stories, 30 feet in circumference, the pole rests on the back of a turtle. Sculpted and brightly painted renditions of spirit lizards, owls, and headressed Indian chiefs climb to the pinnacle. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
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Larame Mosaic by TingyWende
Only in Wyoming. This amazing boot looks like it’s floating in this shot. It was a beautiful morning and this is unaltered except for cloning out a ghastly flood light in the bottom left corner and a car in the right. The colors are right out of the camera.. Taken with a simple Sony DSC H9
Recent Work
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Red River Cart by Vickie Emms
This statue of the oxen and the Red River Cart is situated in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba. / Photo taken from inside the car with the window up as we drove past the statue to catch a light just ahead. No time to stop. / / Canon EOS 50D; 17-85mm lens / 1/128 sec.; F/9.9; 41mm; ISO 400
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Calcutta's Guardian Angel by David McMahon
This winged sculpture with a slender trumpet, called the Angel Of Victory, is the highest point above the central dome of the Victoria Memorial, a stunning marble palace in Calcutta. The bronze statue is almost five metres (16 feet) tall and weighs more than three tonnes – yet in an amazing feat of engineering design, it rotates like a weather vane. The landmark building was built entirely of imported Italian marble to commemorate the reign of Queen Victoria, the last Empress of British India. The angel is mounted on bronze ball bearings which allow it to rotate, even in very low wind conditions. This shot was a difficult angle to achieve, but I also wanted to emphasise the graceful buttresses and the huge marble figures on the right. This was shot in October 2006, using a Pentax K100D with an 18-125mm lens. F11, 1/500 sec, ISO 200 and 125mm.
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Statue of Liberty, New York, USA by jmhdezhdez
Others related images: You can also printer this image in a t-shirt here: (1884 – 1886) ENGLISH Client: People of France / Author: Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi / Height without stand: 46.05 meters / Height with Pedestal: 92.99 meters / Weight: 27,000 tons Located on Liberty Island, which bathes the Hudson River and approximately 2.5 kilometers away from Manhattan, the famous Statue of Liberty stands as a splendid symbol of freedom to doubt the whole world. Frédérick-French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, was commissioned by the French authorities to carry out this giant sculpture that donate to the city of New York to mark the centenary of the Independence of the United States in 1886. The structural engineer Maurice Koechlin, author also of the structural design of the famous Eiffel Tower, build the skeleton to form the basis for the French sculptor carve the 350 pieces that make up the work. The sculpture was built in France at the workshop in 1884 and dismantled for parts arrive by ship to New York in 1885. The famous drawing (Skyline) today offered the city’s skyscrapers of Manhattan, can be seen also from the island itself. The 350 copper panels have a thickness of 2.37 mm each and are the material of the huge sculpture, along with steel internal structure that supports it. A museum is located inside the pedestal that would fund various sources of the United States of America. Corrosion caused by the weather of the place, is offered by the green color characteristic of the statue. In 1984 the Statue of Liberty would be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The famous statue would be inaugurated on 28 October 1886, and today is a symbol of the island of Manhattan. The statue holds in her right hand a torch covered in gold. In his left hand the statue holds a table with the inscription "July IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1,776), the day that America declared independence. ESPAÑOL Cliente: Pueblo de Francia / Autor: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi / Altura sin pedestal: 46.05 metros / Altura con Pedestal: 92.99 metros / Peso: 27.000 toneladas Localizada en la Isla de la Libertad que baña el río Hudson y a 2.5 kilómetros de distancia aproximadamente del sur de Manhattan, la famosa Estatua de la Libertad se erige espléndida como un símbolo indudable de libertad para el mundo entero. El escultor francés Frédérick-Auguste Bartholdi, recibía el encargo por parte de las autoridades francesas para la realización de esta gigante escultura que donarían a la ciudad de Nueva York con motivo del Centenario de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos de América en 1.886. El Ingeniero estructural Maurice Koechlin, autor también del diseño estructural de la famosa Torre Eiffel de París, construiría el esqueleto que serviría de base para que el escultor francés esculpiese las 350 piezas que conforman la obra. La escultura fue construida en Francia en el taller en 1.884, y llegaría desmontada por piezas en barco hasta Nueva York en 1.885. El famoso dibujo (Skyline) que ofrecen hoy día los rascacielos de la ciudad de Manhattan, puede ser observado también desde la propia isla. Los 350 paneles de cobre tienen un espesor de 2.37 mm cada uno y son el material empleado en la enorme escultura, junto con el acero de la estructura interna que lo sostiene. Un Museo se sitúa en el interior del pedestal que financiarían diversas fuentes de los Estados Unidos de América. La corrosión provocada por la climatología propia del lugar, es la que ofrece el característico color verde de la estatua. En el año 1.984 la Estatua de la Libertad sería declarada por la UNESCO Patrimonio de la Humanidad. La famosa estatua sería inaugurada el 28 de octubre de 1.886, y a día de hoy es todo un símbolo de la isla de Manhattan. La estatua sostiene en su mano derecha una antorcha recubierta de oro. En su mano izquierda la estatua sostiene una tabla con la inscripción “July IV MDCCLXXVI”, (4 de julio de 1.776) , día en el que los Estados Unidos declaraban la independencia. © José Miguel Hernández Hernández
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Eiffel Tower, París, France, 1.887 - 1.889 by jmhdezhdez
ENGLISH Client: Local Authorities / Engineer: Gustave Eiffel, Maurice Koechlin / Sin Antenna Height: 300 meters / Antenna Height: 324 meters / Weight: 720,000 tons The French engineer Gustave Eiffel, offered entirely industrial design of this tower to Local Authorities to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution on the occasion of the Exposition Universelle in 1889. The commission thus would make the tower itself hiciese gateway for major exhibitions. The four supports on which rest the tower has a foundation with a depth of 30 meters. These four legs resting on 8 also jacks each for better stability and resistance to strong wind. They are 18,038 wrought iron pieces that make up the structure of the tower designed by structural engineer Maurice Koechlin, who had been hired for the steel construction company in 1879 by Gustave Eiffel. All parts were assembled using no less than two and a half million rivets. A curious fact of the antenna 24 meters in height than the crown, which was installed years later. Still, the Eiffel Tower, would be the tallest building in the world for some years. To access the first two levels, an elevator large capacity starts from each of the four legs and a slant. The second level to the top, the tower has four elevators that travel from Lower Capacity vertically to the top where the viewpoint and from which you can see a panoramic view of the entire city of Paris. ESPAÑOL Cliente: Autoridades Locales / Ingenieros: Gustave Eiffel y Maurice Koechlin / Altura sin Antena: 300 metros / Altura con Antena : 324 metros / Peso: 720,000 toneladas El Ingeniero francés Gustave Eiffel, ofrecía el diseño totalmente industrial de esta torre a las Autoridades Locales para conmemorar el Centenario de la Revolución Francesa con motivo de la Exposición Universal de París en el año 1889. El encargo, de este modo, haría que la propia torre hiciese de puerta de entrada para la Exposición Importante. Los cuatro apoyos en los que descansa la torre tienen una cimentación con una profundidad de 30 metros. Estas cuatro patas descansan también sobre 8 gatos hidráulicos cada una para mejor estabilidad y resistencia frente al fuerte viento. Son 18.038 las piezas de hierro forjado que conforman la estructura de la torre diseñada por el ingeniero estructural Maurice Koechlin, quien había sido contratado para la Empresa de Construcciones Metálicas por Gustave Eiffel en 1879. Todas las piezas ensambladas mediante fueron nada menos que dos millones y medio de roblones. Un dato curioso de la antena de 24 metros de altura que la corona, fue que se instalaría años más tarde. Aún así, la Torre Eiffel, seria la construcción más alta del mundo durante algunos años. Para acceder a los dos primeros niveles, un ascensor de Gran Capacidad arranca desde cada una de las cuatro patas y de forma inclinada. Del segundo nivel a la cúspide, la torre cuenta con otros cuatro ascensores que viajan de menor capacidad de forma vertical hasta la cima donde se encuentra el mirador y desde el que se divisa una vista panorámica de toda la ciudad parisina. © José Miguel Hernández Hernández
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Green Sea Donut (Doesnt get any more random!) by Explosive
Its a one odd object, i tell you. It pretty huge too / In the background, in the sea, u can spot the skeleton of a burnt down pier. / Brighton UK ANY INFO about this thing, forward it to me plz!!! / Omg!! My donut was featured in the : European Everyday Life Group / Experimental Photography and editing Group / and in the Faded Seaside Glamour group!!!! :D
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Classical Capital ~ Part Three by artisandelimage
Washington Monument, Washington D.C., USA Olympus SP570 UZ
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Octo - Eternity Statue by monocotylidono
Octo: Wendy Taylor, 1980 location / Stainless steel, water / Outside Norfolk House and Ashton House, on the corner of Silbury Boulevard and Saxon Gate, Milton Keynes, UK / Commissioned by Milton Keynes Development Corporation and sponsored by, and donated to, Norwich Union Insurance Group Octo was commissioned specifically for its site in Milton Keynes. Its twisting ribbon of stainless steel makes a figure of eight when viewed from one direction but changes radically as the viewer walks around the sculpture. The ribbon is based on a Möbius strip (with a double twist), a mathematical term describing a continuous surface created by twisting a long rectangular strip of stainless steel through 180º and joining the ends; the form neither has an inside nor an outside. The artist has sited the sculpture on a pool of water to emphasise its point of contact with the surface and to set up a continual play of shifting reflections as the shining sculpture reflects in the water and in the surrounding mirrored buildings. The sculpture is a memorial to Lord Llewelyn-Davis. [From MKWeb] / . / The name Octo comes from the Greek word for “eight”. The status is also locally know as “Eternity” Note: I have copied the text from the site above verbatim, but I personally disagree with one point – this isn’t a Mobius strip! [Sony a350, Sigma 10-20@10mm, f:8, 1/50, ISO-100; Two exposures created from a single RAW file using Photoshop CS3 and blended using Photomatix Pro]
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Statue of Liberty, New York, USA by jmhdezhdez
(1884 – 1886) ENGLISH Client: People of France / Author: Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi / Height without stand: 46.05 meters / Height with Pedestal: 92.99 meters / Weight: 27,000 tons Located on Liberty Island, which bathes the Hudson River and approximately 2.5 kilometers away from Manhattan, the famous Statue of Liberty stands as a splendid symbol of freedom to doubt the whole world. Frédérick-French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, was commissioned by the French authorities to carry out this giant sculpture that donate to the city of New York to mark the centenary of the Independence of the United States in 1886. The structural engineer Maurice Koechlin, author also of the structural design of the famous Eiffel Tower, build the skeleton to form the basis for the French sculptor carve the 350 pieces that make up the work. The sculpture was built in France at the workshop in 1884 and dismantled for parts arrive by ship to New York in 1885. The famous drawing (Skyline) today offered the city’s skyscrapers of Manhattan, can be seen also from the island itself. The 350 copper panels have a thickness of 2.37 mm each and are the material of the huge sculpture, along with steel internal structure that supports it. A museum is located inside the pedestal that would fund various sources of the United States of America. Corrosion caused by the weather of the place, is offered by the green color characteristic of the statue. In 1984 the Statue of Liberty would be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The famous statue would be inaugurated on 28 October 1886, and today is a symbol of the island of Manhattan. The statue holds in her right hand a torch covered in gold. In his left hand the statue holds a table with the inscription "July IV MDCCLXXVI" (July 4, 1,776), the day that America declared independence. ESPAÑOL Cliente: Pueblo de Francia / Autor: Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi / Altura sin pedestal: 46.05 metros / Altura con Pedestal: 92.99 metros / Peso: 27.000 toneladas Localizada en la Isla de la Libertad que baña el río Hudson y a 2.5 kilómetros de distancia aproximadamente del sur de Manhattan, la famosa Estatua de la Libertad se erige espléndida como un símbolo indudable de libertad para el mundo entero. El escultor francés Frédérick-Auguste Bartholdi, recibía el encargo por parte de las autoridades francesas para la realización de esta gigante escultura que donarían a la ciudad de Nueva York con motivo del Centenario de la Independencia de los Estados Unidos de América en 1.886. El Ingeniero estructural Maurice Koechlin, autor también del diseño estructural de la famosa Torre Eiffel de París, construiría el esqueleto que serviría de base para que el escultor francés esculpiese las 350 piezas que conforman la obra. La escultura fue construida en Francia en el taller en 1.884, y llegaría desmontada por piezas en barco hasta Nueva York en 1.885. El famoso dibujo (Skyline) que ofrecen hoy día los rascacielos de la ciudad de Manhattan, puede ser observado también desde la propia isla. Los 350 paneles de cobre tienen un espesor de 2.37 mm cada uno y son el material empleado en la enorme escultura, junto con el acero de la estructura interna que lo sostiene. Un Museo se sitúa en el interior del pedestal que financiarían diversas fuentes de los Estados Unidos de América. La corrosión provocada por la climatología propia del lugar, es la que ofrece el característico color verde de la estatua. En el año 1.984 la Estatua de la Libertad sería declarada por la UNESCO Patrimonio de la Humanidad. La famosa estatua sería inaugurada el 28 de octubre de 1.886, y a día de hoy es todo un símbolo de la isla de Manhattan. La estatua sostiene en su mano derecha una antorcha recubierta de oro. En su mano izquierda la estatua sostiene una tabla con la inscripción “July IV MDCCLXXVI”, (4 de julio de 1.776) , día en el que los Estados Unidos declaraban la independencia. © José Miguel Hernández Hernández
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Democracy by artisandelimage
Best View LARGE Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C., USA As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. / Abraham Lincoln Olympus SP570 UZ
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Koilos by Lucindawind
this is Koilos … isnt he a lovey creature ! well how would you like to wake up to this in you garden court every morning ! If you’ve been to the festival Burning Man in Nevada, then you have seen Michael Christian’s handiwork. The 44-year-old Oakland , California artist is well respected at this fest for his wild and dizzying 40-foot-tall metal sculptures. Some resemble fire-breathing aliens, others look like serpentine coils diving through the sand. / Recently, Christian travelled to Toronto to create his first work in Canada. Invited by the Distillery District, in the southeast end of the city, Christian was commissioned to place two of his pieces in the District. For three years, his creatures named IT and Koilos will stand silently as pedestrians meander through the popular tourist spot. The 14-foot-tall Koilos could be out of a Del Toro film: a creature in the crouching position has a head fringed with flames, giving the impression of a monster eager to pounce. It was made with 2,000 pounds of steel.
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Baby Girl and Pylon by GolemAura
Photo of a little girl touching some giant art in Seattle Below is a video of the cones http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/visit/OSP/Media/conesvideo.htm (her parents didn’t mind me snapping the photo… I decreased the colors to create a cut out effect to protect the Identity of the little girl and added a vignette for balance
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Statue of Liberty, New York, USA by jmhdezhdez
Statue of Liberty, New York, USA, T-shirt, camisa, camiseta, souvenir © José Miguel Hernández Hernández
About This Group
This group is for showing off those HUGE icons called “Town Giants” that we see across our countries generally in small towns. In Canada we have the Pysanka in Vegreville, Alberta, the Big Nickel in Sudbury, Ontario and everything in between. We want to see those icons that your small town has as a town symbol too.
What would make this an even more awesome group would be for people to submit writings on the origin, history, memorable moments, etc. associated with these over-sized icons.
To clarify, it may be easier to consider what we do NOT want submitted:
– natural wonders
- just a town statue with no significance as a Town Giant (There is our sibling group Statues & Such for those)
- symbols such as Big Ben, Eiffel Tower, Cathedral de Sevilla
- park or other statues where there are a number of like kind that are not significant as a Town Giant or
- buildings, bridges, etc..
There will be no limits as to how many photos you can submit in a day. We are stiffening the rules to hopefully include more of a description, such as the history of the giant and/or why the town embraces it as a symbol. Most of them include a sign beneath them to explain this. Just write that in your description. There are also other sites that one can use to find Town Giants that have information about it. Feel free to quote or provide a link.
As for challenges in the future, if a photo has won a challenge in the past it is not eligible for entry.
Featured photos will remain featured forever in the group
Featured members will remain featured members forever in the group
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