Wordless Wednesday: George Washington Looks Both Ways

SandyCarlson February 23, 2011
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This concave sculpture of President George Washington at the Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center at Mt. Vernon creates the illusion that Mr. Washington's gaze is following you across the lobby of the center. My daughter and I stood at opposite sides of this sculpture and photographed him at the same time. In both images, he is looking right at us. Studio EIS knows how to make the magic.

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23 Comments

  1. Indrani5:55 AM

    Beautiful lighting and capture.

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  2. caite6:47 AM

    very cool...isn't that how they do those busts at the Haunted Mansion at Disney World?

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  3. Susan Demeter6:52 AM

    Very cool! Would like to see it in person Happy WW

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  4. Deb Nance at Readerbuzz7:02 AM

    I like how you thought out the photographing of these shots.

    Here is my Wordless Wednesday: I am Fancy Nancy!

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  5. Lisa at Greenbow7:05 AM

    How eerie. The Lincoln Center in Lincoln, IL has some amazing art similar to this but it is Abe Lincoln of course.

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  6. Yogi♪♪♪7:06 AM

    George W, (not Dubya) doesn't miss a beat after all these years.

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  7. www.retiredandcrazy.com11:02 AM

    So "being two faced" isn't a modern phenomenon!

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  8. Cascia Talbert11:05 AM

    That is cool! Visit The Zoo for my WW. http://talbertzoo.blogspot.com/2011/02/wordless-wednesday-close-up-1.html

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  9. Great Grandma Lin11:18 AM

    fascinating. I have a photo of my deceased dad taken for his pilot license and it does the same...

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  10. Anonymous12:03 PM

    I don't know, he looks a little bit drunk to me. Maybe breaking the fabric of space-time has that effect. :)

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  11. catsynth12:11 PM

    Interesting sculpture. Brings together the historic and the contemporary.

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  12. Debbie12:57 PM

    Wow! That is fun. And a little creepy:)

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  13. Greg Finnegan12:59 PM

    Very cool! Thanks for the clever pictures/

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  14. San1:30 PM

    How unnerving. Would love to see this in person, Sandy.

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  15. colleen2:10 PM

    It's kind of head turning in a haunting way.

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  16. imac2:49 PM

    Neat,wow,cool,amazing.

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  17. A Lady's Life3:15 PM

    That's so cool. You wonder how they do that?
    Today I was wondering if they don't do these holograms in the sky and make people think they are UFO's.

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  18. Hilary4:28 PM

    Very cool.. and a great way to illustrate this.

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  19. Maggie May4:45 PM

    Sort of ethereal. Very striking.
    Maggie X

    Nuts in May

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  20. Anonymous7:54 PM

    You do magic.



    Please have you all a good Thursday.


    daily athens

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  21. Gabriel8:54 PM

    Cool!!! Or eerie, I haven't decided yet. :-)

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  22. George10:24 PM

    This is really neat! Thanks to you (and your daughter) for bringing this to us.

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  23. Unknown10:37 PM

    That's pretty cool! Kinda creepy too though.

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