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by Doug Matthews
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Boudica or Boudicca (Latinised as Boadicea or Boudicea and known in Welsh as Buddug) was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an... more
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Boudica or Boudicca (Latinised as Boadicea or Boudicea and known in Welsh as Buddug) was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61, and died shortly after its failure, having supposedly poisoned herself. She is considered a British folk hero.
Boudica's husband, Prasutagus, ruled as a nominally independent ally of Rome and left his kingdom jointly to his daughters and the Roman emperor in his will. However, when he died, his will was ignored, and the kingdom was annexed and his property taken. According to Tacitus, Boudica was flogged and her daughters raped. Cassius Dio provides an alternative explanation for Boudica's response, saying that previous imperial donations to influential Britons were confiscated and the Roman financier and philosopher Seneca called in the loans he had forced on the reluctant Britons. (Wikipedia)
In this image I tried to depict her as the defeated warrior queen...
I began photography with a Brownie camera my parents gave me as a child sometime in the 1950s. In the 1970s I finally graduated to an SLR and actually won a few contests, then took a hiatus through the 1990s but picked up digital photography in earnest in the mid-2000s. Now, many years later, it still excites me to venture out and try to find what the world is all about in my own way through this wonderful medium. To me, photography is about capturing the hidden meaning, the emotion, and the invisible in a given moment in time. It transcends mere composition and lighting. When it's done well, we sit up and take notice, we pause over an image, and if everything is perfect, we might even feel that slight tingling up the spine. While I try...
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Bob Christopher
Hi Doug...I like your image. A wonderful subject and beautifully photographed. Lovely work... Cheers Bob fv
John M Bailey
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"