Photos – Chihuly Sculptures

Here’s some more photos from my trip to the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. Yesterday’s post had photos of the famous horse statue at the park.

Today’s post has a few photos of the current exhibit by artist Dale Chihuly. Here is the first, with a couple more after the break.

I loved these sculptures, the whole exhibit was amazing. This was my first time ever seeing Chihuly’s work, and I was blown away. I tweaked the contrast and such to bring out a bit more of the details and swirls in the glass. I love all of the odd reflections.

I was trying to go for a bit of a reflection shot here, and it kind of worked. The weather was weird, shifting from sunny to cloudy and raining all afternoon.

This sculpture was one of my favorites, I think. I liked the red spires set against the blue sky and green grass. This shot was a bit underexposed (d’oh!), so I did what I could to boost it in Photoshop.

Yeah, I know, “Why aren’t you shooting in RAW?” Well, I know I should be–especially when shooting outside. But, I don’t have Lightroom (yet) and until I get a new external hard drive, I don’t have much space to spare either. Sure, my camera came with a program I can use to at least convert my RAW images to TIFF or something, but it is kind of clunky. We’ll see though, I need to experiment with shooting RAW some more.