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Chihuly: The Nature of Glass<\/h5>\n

Last winter the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix hosted a spectacular, by reservation only, exhibit of glass works designed to mimic nature: From flowering cactus to these huge yucca sculptures (pictured) , it must have been hard to tell what was real wand what was glass. Certainly these sculptures, which found a permanent home just outside the entrance as a memorial to the massive show, had me wondering when I first saw them. I thought at first that I was seeing water frozen over living leaves, though it had not been cold enough the night before. As I walked closer I still could not tell what I was seeing, until I rounded the corner and saw the little sign explaining. I have since looked up the exhibit on the web site<\/a>. It must have been spectacular. These sculptures, standing 8 or 9 feet tall in the early morning sun, certainly were.<\/p>\n

Sony DSC H50 at 60mm equivalent for framing. F5.6 @ 1\/320th @ ISO 100. Programmed auto. <\/p>\n

In Lightroom, I was experimenting with the presets for ultra-rapid editing: I used Punch (which adjusts exposure and blackpoint automatically to increase overall intensity) and Landscape Sharpen. I then added level two of Clarity (there are > and >> levels) and level one of Vibrance. And that was it. Four mouse clicks, start to finish, without opening the develop<\/em> module at all.<\/p>\n

In this alternative view, which includes all three sculptures, I did open develop<\/em> as I wanted to crop the image slightly from the left, but it received the same preset treatment, plus some Fill Light when I had it open in develop<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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Both are from Desert Botanical Garden 09<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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