Ice Gallery (after)

So we made it back to the Crystal Ice Gallery to see the final product!  I'm so glad we made it back and it was a lot of fun to see the amazing things these artists created!  This year was much better for us than last year.  Last year we went later in the afternoon when the sun began setting and it got pretty cold!  Neither of us were really prepared for how cold it got and by the time we got back to the jeep we were pretty frostbitten!  

So I was a bit lazy and left my camera on the snow setting.  When I got home I realized that almost all of my pictures were really blue or cool looking.  I ended up really liking them in sepia; it just seemed like more detail was visible.  I ended up going back through all of them and manually adjusted the color to remove a lot of the blueish color.  You can see in the picture below that it still has a blue tint but I was able to add in some more warm tones!

This is a huge Christmas tree that is right next to the ice skating rink

Here Joe is giving me "the look" but I thought that the picture looked pretty neat in sepia!

This sculpture is called "Mountain Meets Sky"

"Officers Memorial"

"Hungry Caterpillar" close up

"Hungry Caterpillar" 

"Gladiolus"
This one was pretty interesting.  It's a woman on a bike riding on a wave.  You can see a seashell  at the bottom right and her hair is almost like a wave as well.  

"Gladiolus"
Close up of the woman's face

"The Predator"
The detail on this one is amazing!

"The Predator"
At the bottom of the predator is the prey... a little bunny.

 These are just a few of the beautiful sculptures that were created for the Crystal Ice Gallery!  It's amazing that these were all just blocks of ice a few days ago!!