I Want One: The Sultan’s Elephant
One of my Flickr contacts is a talented photographer named Simon Crubellier. I like his photos very much. They possess a certain elegance, such as this haunting, lovely photo of Canary Wharf. And there must be something to the kind of person whose interests would run to “urban paranoia and dereliction,” part of the description of Precinct 13, the Flickr group he founded. (He is the Inspector.) With his Canons, many of his pictures have what I like to think of as a “London rinse,” in which the colors of his subjects pop as if just washed and scrubbed. Some photographers, including myself, talk about the light in San Francisco, but it looks as if you can do right by the London light, too.
Need another example? How about La Petite Géante, pictured here. She was part of a performance given in London by France’s Royal de Luxe theatre troupe this weekend. You can read up on this on an informative LiveJournal entry here (read the comments, too), and you can see some interesting video of her in action here.
She was accompanied by the Sultan’s Elephant, photographed by Crubellier as it lumbered through the streets of London on Sunday. In the caption of one of his photos, Crubellier writes of the 11-meter (30 ft) tall mechanical creature, “I want one.” I couldn’t agree more.
All photos courtesy of Simon Crubellier.
