We headed to the night time show of the Chihuly glass exhibit, eager to see how the pieces looked in the evening light. The artwork has survived the recent hailstorm, now could it survive the throngs of wannabe photographers roaming the grounds.
The first picture captures likely my favorite of the displays. And as with any of the displays the need to tap into endless patience for the crowd of people and the inevitable lingerers who had an uncanny ability to creep into the picture frame and wait and wait and check their watch … and read their program…, and then call over their husband and show them the program …. and then discuss, and wait … then finally decide this isn’t the piece described in the program, the piece they want to see is somewhere else. After all of that, here is the picture.
Blue Marlins
The second picture defies the fact that approximately 50+ photographers (not kidding about that number) were all competing for the same end of the day shot. The lady next to me sporting the nice tripod and professional grade Nikon summed it up well, “It’s not that hard people, it’s a picture, point the camera and snap the picture!” I liked her immediately.
Here is one of the dozen, ‘just take it pictures’ that I captured.
Carnival Boat and Float Boat
The adventure continued with this same photographer as we moved over to an even more crowded area that had an endless supply visitors who must have been glass coinsures for how long they lingered in full frame of the picture we waited to take. It’s then I said –“Watch this. Jill we need someone to run interference and block that path.” After smartly allowing a couple wheelchair folks through Jill delayed the swell of crowds just long enough for us to have seconds to snap the following picture. My new photographer friend was dutifully impressed and thankful of Jill’s crowd control abilities.
Scarlet and Yellow Asymmetrical Towers behind the Neodymium Reeds which frame the Mirrored Hornets.
The following two shots are of the Sun. I love the first picture with the contrasting sky.
The Sun
The second picture is a portion of the same sculpture with the sunset highlighting the pieces from behind. Loved that piece and have absolutely no idea how you would assemble such a sculpture.
The Sun
For the following picture is was my turn to create the log jam of photographers behind me as I played with the shutter speed in order to get the water fall behind the sculpture to look like a curtain. Three or for takes and holy H2O batman, the effect I wanted.
Blue and Pink Marlins
The next shot is of the lily pond sculpture, backlit from the sunset. Again, it’s amazing how often a large guy, unaware of his surroundings can get between the setting sun and the sculpture. Ahhhh, move already. Did I say that out loud?!
Persian Pond
Hope you have enjoyed these selections from the SD card full adventure that we had last night.
The night ended with two for one chocolate shakes at Sonic. Yep, I’m still the big spender.
All pictures presented as taken (in camera), no photo editing to date.
