Chiluly Museum

Not sure what this was called, I think we saw this at an MFA Boston installation a few years ago…..This was immense, no way to get it all without multiple shots or a super wide lens….

Bleu, Blanc, Rouge - Vive la France!

No, that is just what I made up for this one. I did a few angles. This photo sets the scene of how large the room was. These sculptures are suspended from the ceiling and large than a human.

Cthulu Blue

Our eldritch masters frozen in glass…..

Hi, its me, Cthulu Blue, yeah I know, me again....

It was due to the blue one hanging away from the walls that you could rotate around it and frame different shots….the other ones were too close to the walls to get behind them……at least with the telephoto lens I had with me….

My favorite from the Cthulu Blues

I just like the crispness of the blue glass and the bokeh of the white glass……I am happy with this one.

The Ark

Again, my name for it, we definitely saw this one in Boston MFA, it is iconic. For the photo nerds like me, I DID NOTHING TO THIS PHOTO. Except the RAW to JPG conversion and export to JPG for Squarespace (no deep color, no JPG2000, no nothing and nothing bigger than 20MB, f*cking pain and I am too lazy to move all this stuff somewhere else)

Tina Turner's wig

No, not really the name of it, but hey, WHO IS EVEN READING THIS? Shot from below, I had some difficulty with the focus since I WAS UPSIDE DOWN ON MY BACK IN THE DARK. There, I said it, the struggle is real folks. And…..there goes my site down in flames…..

Probiscus #2

They built a fucking church for a giant glass sculpture....

Not really, but this entire greenhouse inspired structure was purpose built the Chiluly to build this sculpture. The spiraling and the immensity. Quite over the top. Technically, this was a pain to recover in post-processing, I had no way to get a better angle and the sun was overhead….horrible lighting conditions.

Greenhouse detail

Space needle and Chiluly greenhouse boa…….Again, super manipulated as the sky beyond the glass was whited out……

Maroon...ed behind a Space Needle

Not the best shot, but the pairing of the rhododendron color with the sculpture color married with the verticality of the Space Needle and the sculpture……

Some rando's hanging out by the space needle

No, left to right, Sonja in plaid with hate, Gino with backpack and Ms Chouteau with Stetson and blond mane.

When I grow up I will be a big fern too!

Baby fern unfurling at the base of the Space Needle, fronds uncurling towards the same sun. Are they pulled to the sky by the sun against the warped spacetime at the core of the earth?

BAD HAIR DAY!!!!

No, it would be if I had lined it up better but getting a stationary shot of Ms Chouteau at Chiluly glass musuem is like photographing a 3 year old at the lego store after a few too many Freeze Pops……

Running around in circles......

I tried some action shooting, did I get her?

Greenhouse and Medusa Hair

No idea what the hell the exhibits were called…..I wish I had framed this one better, I couldn’t crop into obedience….unlike a bad jockey at the Derby…..yeah, I know, Dad jokes…..the best….

Fronds unfurling......

The fronds really went well with the black glass in the back but I couldn’t get everything in focus (wrong aperture) and light metering was off……argh…..so much to learn.

International Trailer with Orange Tentacles

My favorite shot that was not a Chiluly piece solely…..Steel and masonite, orange glass tentacles….I really like the handle with vibrant reflection on the middle right…….Very happy. I think I will print this one.

A hallway with some glass art

Throw away shot but it is documentary and since I don’t post this crap or stuff, indulge me a few persona shots of non-photographic interest…..

Dominique in the art trees

Beyond stupid levels of photo manipulation were required to rescue this disaster of a shot….but we don’t just take photos for aesthetic sometimes we also are tourists in our own lives….

Jun 16 Chiluly Museum

Jun 20 Portland Japanese Garden

Jun 15 Evening at friends

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