Ned Kelly's Car at Ayers Rock
by Kaye Menner
Title
Ned Kelly's Car at Ayers Rock
Artist
Kaye Menner
Medium
Photograph - Photography, Hdr
Description
An HDR photograph taken in a car museum in Echuca, Victoria, Australia, of a well used and rusty old Holden station wagon done up as Ned Kelly's car. For more information on Ned Kelly, please read the article below from Wikipedia.
[Wikipedia]
Edward "Ned" Kelly (June 1854 or 1855 to 11 November 1880) [no record of his birth] was an Irish Australian bushranger. He is considered by some to be merely a cold-blooded killer, while others consider him to be a folk hero and symbol of Irish Australian resistance against the Anglo-Australian ruling class.
Kelly was born in Victoria to an Irish convict father, and as a young man he clashed with the Victoria Police. Following an incident at his home in 1878, police parties searched for him in the bush. After he killed three policemen, the colony proclaimed Kelly and his gang as wanted outlaws.
A final violent confrontation with police took place at Glenrowan on 28 June 1880. Kelly, dressed in home-made plate metal armour and a helmet, was captured and sent to jail. He was convicted of three counts of wilful murder and hanged at Old Melbourne Gaol in November 1880. His daring and notoriety made him an iconic figure in Australian history, folklore, literature, art and film.
In August 2011, anthropologists announced that a skeleton found in a mass grave in Pentridge Prison had been confirmed as Kelly's. His skull, however, remains missing.
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June 28th, 2013
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