I covered a lot of things in photographs in my previous visits to Savannah. On visit No. 4, could I possibly find anything I missed before?
A good photographer always answers, "Of course." And of course, I found more things to photograph. And, okay, I found some of the
same things to photograph.
Leading off the post is what I've been calling "a section shot" of a larger form. It's the top half of "Bird Girl," the now-famous sculpture by Sylvia Shaw Judson that appears on the cover of the 1994 best-selling book
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which a few years later Clint Eastwood made into a motion picture, starring Kevin Spacey.
When the local photographer was assigned to find cover art for the book, "Bird Girl" was located in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery. Once the book and film became a hit, the cemetery traffic to check out the statue became so heavy that the statue was moved first to the local Telfair Academy museum and later to the Jepson Center for the Fine Arts, where I found it for this image.
Jepson also had the fascinating artwork pictured immediately below. It resembles an anchor, but I didn't have time to explore the title or its background.
As always, if you want to pull up a larger, sharper version of a photo, simply click on it. This is particularly helpful if you access the site using a mobile device. Galleries from my recent visit to Savannah
can be found by following the link in this sentence.
Photo geek stuff: All of the photos you see in this post were taken with my Canon 6D and Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD lens. I bracketed each composition for three exposures, melding them into one in post-processing using Photomatix high-dynamic range (HDR) software.
When we arrived in Savannah on Nov. 12, the city still had its Veterans Day decorations up, as shown above. The flags spanned Broughton Street, the main commercial thoroughfare in the historic district and downtown. On the last two days we were there, the city was replacing those with Christmas decorations, as shown in the first two photos below.
While downtown, I found this courier's bicycle (above) outside the Goose Feathers, an express cafe at 39 Barnard St. We'd had breakfast there on a previous visit, and we decided to do so again this time. We enjoyed our meals again, as we had on the first visit. Elsewhere downtown, while passing The Paris Market from the other side of Broughton Street, I noticed the situation seen in the photo below ... where the employee changing the window display ... became a kind of display herself, prompting passersby to do a double-take.
Above: I chuckled with I saw the word "Garfunkel" in this sign. I just wish I'd have been able to juxtapose it with something showing the name "Simon" on it.
A street artist in creative mode in one of the neighborhood squares (above) and a fruit dangling from a tree (below) near the Green-Meldrim House (second below) across from Madison Square. The third photo below shows the covered walkway between the Green-Meldrim House and the adjacent St. John's Episcopal Church. We toured the Green-Meldrim House -- notable because it was where Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman stayed briefly after his Union Army entered Savannah during the Civil War. Interior pictures weren't allowed in the house, so ... there are none to present here.
Above and first two photos below: The Kehoe House, 123 Habersham St., is now a premier bed and breakfast, is named for its first occupant. William Kehoe, an immigrant from Ireland, and his wife and 10 children moved into the home near Columbia Square in 1892. It stayed in the family until his last heir sold it in 1930. It had various functions and owners in the years afterward (one of the owners in that period was former NFL star Joe Namath) until it was finally converted into the bed and breakfast it is today in 1992.
I always photograph the iconic fountain (above) in Savannah's premier neighborhood square, Forsyth Square, when I visit the city. I may not get a new view, but it's always pretty. Below is the Confederate Monument in the same square, situated in the middle of the large park's southern second. The woman shown in the second photo below was working on what appeared to be a pencil drawing.
A gnome (above) and a stuff doll of some kind (below) found on adjacent plastic chairs inside a fence bordering a home somewhere in the historic district.
City Hall (above) as seen from Johnson Square and a framing of Lutheran Church of the Ascension (below) that I liked.
In the open City Market plaza just west of Ellis Square, we came across this dog making nice with strangers (above) that it walked over to get some attention. On its way back to its owner, it stopped to pose for me (below). Elsewhere in the plaza, a man seemed to be trying to calm a small child as they sat on steps outside a City Market eatery.
This ends the Savannah series.
Previously in the series:
Part III: Historic Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters
Part IV: Classic French impressionists on display at Jepson Center
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