:) this shot is sooo cool, excellently done!!!!

From what I always understood, the disproportion of the hands and feet were a visual trick. The statue was originally created to be viewed from atop a building or niche up high. The resulting foreshortening of the body, seen from below would then correct the perceived visual inaccuracy. Very much like viewing the foreshortened figures in a ceiling mural of the many european palaces.

a wonderful statue. i like the colours and composition of the image. an excellent photography. #:O)

Wonderful photo. Excellent owrk !!!

Excellent capture!!! Bravo :)

FitArtistSF has the right theory, I think. We are not seeing this statue from the same viewpoint that it was orginally intended. A really effective photo.

Wonderful capture Charles, the comments seem to point out the cause of the obvious disproportionality! Gorgeous work! :)

Beautiful sculpture and your photo is so creative!!

you know l,ve never noticed the hands and you are right..beautifully captured.. stunnig work:))))) excellent

Colour certainly makes this impactful. The B&W historc values (represented by the statue) and the modern colour balance well.

Wonderful against that warm backdrop. Not only the hands are oversized, the head is too. It's placement way up high led to the odd proportions...looking at it from below it would appear to be more natural. Great capture and history.

Le proble avec une photo d'une belle oeuvre d'art, c'est qu'on se demande qui ficiter... Faut-il ficiter le sculpteur qui a cr cette belle oeuvre d'art, ou le photographe (et dans ce cas, quelle est sa valeur ajout) ? Vaste question. Note: On voie ses organes gitaux, il fallait mettre l'estampille NUDITY non ? En plus il se ronge les ongles, mauvais exemple pour la jeunesse...

So the old saying about having big feet doesn't appear to hold true in this case - or was it a cold day???

LOL @ tommorules! Excellent capture Charles ... love the tones of the statue against that warm background :)