A Drop of Rain
Introduction
The photograph on this page of A Drop of Rain by David Dixon as part of the Geograph project.
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A Drop of Rain
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 3 Apr 2012
The largest of the stainless steel spheres in Image It is part of a piece of public artwork called "Rain". The sculpture features nine large Sheffield stainless steel spheres varying in sizes up to 2m in diameter, which were intended to suggest drops of rain that have just landed on the surface of the square (https://web.archive.org/web/20121004235709/https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/out--about/city-centre/public-spaces/millennium-square.html - Sheffield City Council - archived October 2012 )
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Image Location
Latitude
53.379481
Longitude
-1.46901