By sandy
I just noticed Andrew's great pictures of the Albert Monument in an earlier post, and wanted to add one of my own. This was taken in 2001, and I didn't notice the other-worldly cloud formations behind the monument until after I uploaded the photos.
Beau, in a further response to your questions on Andrew's post, Queen Victoria apparently became deeply depressed after Albert's death, which likely led her to eventually have this monument constructed to his memory. Her depression is the subject of the wonderful (although fictionalized) movie "Mrs. Brown", starring Judi Dench and Billy Connelly.
There's also a weird and apocryphal story that the Prince Albert style of piercing is named after the good man.
That is a really good photo - did you use some sort of perspective adjustment lens or software?
Posted by: Andrew | 27 October 2005 at 07:04
I seem to recall that this was taken when I was there on a business trip involving several countries, so I was travelling light: I would have shot this with a fairly low resolution point-and-shoot Fujifilm digital camera. I don't recall doing any software manipulations except cropping, my tools were pretty rudimentary at the time.
Posted by: Sandy Kemsley | 27 October 2005 at 12:43