In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Connected.”

The Giants came to Perth in February 2015 as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. They were connected to cranes and trucks with cables and their every move (made possible by a manifold of handlers who were in turn connected to the giants) was mesmerizing but it was the way they connected with the people of Perth, brought the crowds out in their thousands for three days straight, the way the people of Perth connected with each other as a result as well as The Giants’ connection to Australia and New Zealand’s Anzac history during the year we celebrated the centenary of Gallipoli that made for a quite indescribable experience.

The quality of my photos aren’t brilliant as we saw them for a brief time only (about 2 minutes max from the time they came into our view) and I had to make the most of the opportunities available, but it’s the experience that’s stayed with me. (I prefer the tiled gallery to the mesh that I used previously because I hadn’t worked out how to display the portrait style photos properly in a mesh gallery.)

Their full story can be read here: The Giants

(and there’s a mention in one of my previous posts).

I hope the gallery can do justice to their story, I find it touching to work with the photos but hard to convey the emotion.

The Diver and Little Girl will soon awaken, their sleepful breathing can still be heard

The Diver, close-up

The Little Girl and The Diver are coming along the road

The Little Girl is now in our view

Close-up of The Little Girl

The Little Girl approaching

Looking around, connecting with the crowds

One last glance our way

And then The Diver came into full view

Measuring over 6 metres every movement of The Diver requires a legion of lilliputians

Hard work by the lilliputians connected to The Diver

And some acrobatics as well

Glancing the other way

And then he’d passed us

Some more acrobatics

And that was our last view of The Giants as they made their way towards their boat waiting on the Swan River