Tonight’s picture captures another sculpture from Hoover Dam.  This piece of art work is pretty new though, the piece was commissioned in 1998 and depicts one of the most dangerous jobs required to build the dam.  The job is called a High Scaler and involves sitting in a little “bosun’s chair” and being suspended hundreds of feet in the air and setting charges into the face of the canyon’s walls to remove lose rock!  The status is based on Joe Kine who carried out this job for a few large dams in the 1930s and 1940s.  The monument is dedicated to the 98 men who lost their life during the dams construction and actually sits on the visitors car park.

So as you drive up you see this statue and it grabs your eye immediately, it’s really impressive.  We parked up and I immediately ran to the sculpture to get a picture.  Unfortunately the statue was back lit and my first few shots captured a great silhouette.  It took me a few attempts to get the angle right so I could light the front of the statue.  Ideally I would have had a flash with me to light it up even more, but it was ridiculously hot and we couldn’t be bothered to go back to the car to get them. (That’s terrible to admit but the truth).   So I made do and eventually go the shot below.

The statue is not that high off the floor (around 6 feet).  But I didn’t want the floor in the shot so I had to get quite close.  But I love the blue sky in the background the and red rock he’s climbing.  When I got home I was very pleased with the image and think it came out well.

Sometimes at night you just need a nice bowl of cereal.  The guys saw a commercial on TV and ran to get out some Life!