File:Cecil Rhodes Memorial Elevated View 2 (edited to remove perspective distortion).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(1,770 × 976 pixels, file size: 1.41 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

"Rhodes Memorial" in Cape Town, South Africa, which was built in 1912 in memoriam of Cecil John Rhodes

Summary[edit]

Description
English: An elevated view on the monument "Rhodes Memorial" on the slopes of Devil's peak, close to Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. Cecil John Rhodes, who died in 1902 aged 49, was an important English-born politician in the then British colony which is today a part of South Africa, a mining magnate and founder of the De Beers diamond company. As the economic differences between different groups of the population are still (as of 2024) large in South Africa, the existence of the extensive and massive monument is a subject of controversy - partly because Rhodes is regarded by critics to have significantly contributed to an economic system which was based on inequality of people with different racial background, and which is partly seen as a kind of precursor to the deeply racist Apartheid regime in South Africa - which was formed some decades after his death - and which was only overcome in 1993.
Date
Source Own work
Author
Permission
(Reusing this file)
This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: In the original, the top of the temple building was not exactly horizontal, while the lower part of the steps was - changed perspective in the software IrfanView (Plug-ins) to bring both in harmony, while also removing a slight pillow-shaped distortion. Modifications made by Pittigrilli.

Other versions
Image extraction processThis file has an extracted image: Cecil Rhodes Memorial Elevated View 2B (cropped, edited).jpg.
lang=en
image extraction process
This file has been extracted from another file
: Cecil Rhodes Memorial Elevated View 2.jpg
original file

Licensing[edit]

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current19:23, 23 April 2024Thumbnail for version as of 19:23, 23 April 20241,770 × 976 (1.41 MB)Pittigrilli (talk | contribs)edited image
19:21, 23 April 2024Thumbnail for version as of 19:21, 23 April 20241,514 × 852 (1.42 MB)Pittigrilli (talk | contribs)File:Cecil Rhodes Memorial Elevated View 2.jpg cropped 20 % horizontally, 20 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Cecil_Rhodes_Memorial_Elevated_View_2_(edited_to_remove_perspective_distortion).jpg&oldid=873622976"