A lighted white cathedral in the middle distance. It has a single tall dark spire in the center and two shorter spires on each side. A dark grey river is in the foreground reflecting amber and blue lights on the riverbank. There are other less bright lights from buildings nearby. There are trees also visible. The sky is in the end of sunset, with faint horizontal areas of a pale orange in gray clouds. The cathedral stands out amidst the gray. Hi Tanya!

St. Louis Cathedral
New Orleans
From a riverboat on a misty night, 2020

🧵 #NOLA (missing it greatly)
#WinterBright #TravelPhotography #Travel
@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

A large glass installation full of individual elements that suggest plants, flowers, and shrubs. All are individually brightly colored representing the full spectrum of colors, but mainly primary colors. In general, the elements are a single color, but may be enhanced by one or more accent colors. Shapes include tall wavy slender stalks widening into leaflike structures, textured orbs, wavy concave discs, clusters of spikes, and a big cylindrical structure consisting of a dense thicket of curly stems. The cylindrical structure is two meters tall and about a meter wide. the curly stems are directed horizontally except for the top where they extend upward and outward. The whole installation is on a flat black glass that reflects the elements. Strong lighting is from above.

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Mille Fiori ("a thousand flowers") installation showing 'organic, free flowing forms that evoke the natural world.' This evokes a bountiful garden in summer.

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A section of a complex colorful art glass installation lit strongly from above. In the foreground is an element where bright red and reddish clear smooth branches arise from a single location like a fern. To the left are several curvy individual yellow stems that form red flattened but wavy flowers at the end. These are over a meter (yard) tall. Behind these is a thick shrub-like element made up of many spiraling curvy branches arising out of a vertical "trunk" that is not visible the branches are so thick. The bottom half has blue branches and the top half has bright yellow branches that point outward and also upward. At the base of all this is black glass that captures the reflection of many of the elements. The background is a black wall.

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Section of Mille Fiori ("a thousand flowers") installation showing 'organic, free flowing forms that evoke the natural world.' This evokes a bountiful garden in summer.

#Chihuly Glass Exhibition
#BiltmoreEstate
#Asheville NC

@vlrny […]

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View of shop window with about 15 internally lighted five-point stars hanging in different levels from the ceiling. Each star is a different multi-colored pattern, including pink, orange, green, blue red, and yellow. Below the stars, on the floor, are decorative pots for planting and a decor item on a stand with a metal face at the top of green metal with what looks like found metal parts for eyes, nose and mouth.

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Shop window at night
#Asheville NC

@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#AVL #Travel #TravelPhotography

A complex seascape over ten meters (yards) long and about half that wide created with Chinese lanterns. Bright internally-lit fish, seahorses, kelp, coral and other structures in reds, blues, oranges, purples, greens and more. A huge bright pink tree-like coral structure arises from the center to more than twelve meters tall. On the right is the front of a large angelfish in the foreground. The seascape sits on a foundation that is a couple of feet above a large pond, which reflects much of the colors and structures clearly.

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Huge Seascape Installation Over Water
Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

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@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChineseLanterns #Travel
#TravelPhotography

Lights in the winter garden

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These lights have gotten me through the short days. Today. I took the wreath down.

View looking up slightly, with tops of heads at the bottom. Above are internally lit fabric covered lanterns that change colors. At this time they are purple with strands of blue delicate fabric wisteria blossoms hanging down, extending beyond the two-foot (2/3 meter) lantern. There are a few orange lanterns visible without the wisteria strands. Portions of additional lighted light blue horizontal and vertical structures are also visible through the lanterns.

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Wisteria Lane
Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

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@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChineseLanterns #TravelPhotography

Large installation of internally lit brightly colored animal figures structures and plants covered in fabric. At the bottom are seen the tops of green leafy vegetation with one short type of dinosaur amidst them. The dinosaur is yellow and orange colored with lines from the fabric being used to create the lantern also shaping the animal parts. The dinosaur has a horn coming off its head and its tail is alternately striped with dark brown and yellow. Behind the green vegetation and short dinosaur appear a blue dinosaur with a long neck and also blue waterfalls that are actually internally lit lanterns again in the shape of waterfalls originating in very tall structures behind them. These tall structures are also lanterns internally lit and orange. They are very tall with brown and yellow markings to signify that they are mountains or hills. Atop each of these five tall structures each are a dinosaur lantern. Three of the dinosaurs are pale yellow and brown with mouths open. One is bright green. They are standing up active and in reality were animated and moving back and forth. One dinosaur is a flying dinosaur with a large red wingspan. The background is totally black in this night shot.

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Dinosaurs on mountaintops. These structures are over 5 meters (yards) tall.

Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

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@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChineseLanterns #TravelPhotography

A variety of types of glass art, lighted from above and against a dark background. In the front lower foreground is a blue orb with white blotchy patterning that makes it look like it is moving around. There are long vertical slender flower-like structures in bright purple and aqua. Other tall flower-like structures are clear dark blue and open with trumpet-like undulations. Bright green spikey "shrubs", yellow flat wide but rippling structures are also seen in back of the orb and stems.

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Section of Mille Fiori ("a thousand flowers") installation showing 'organic, free flowing forms that evoke the natural world.' This evokes a bountiful garden in summer.

#Chihuly Glass Exhibition
#BiltmoreEstate
#Asheville NC

@vlrny […]

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Three types of glass art against a black background. At the bottom, an orange roundish 'flower' that is flat with ripples and subtle lines enhancing the effect. On the right is a group of three yellow and red slender stemmed figures ending in an enlarged simple flower-like structure. In the rear of these is a taller complex structure made out of dozens of slender curling and spiraling 'stems' of glass. The glass of bottom half is blue, dark and light, while the glass at the top half is yellow, spiraling outward and upward.

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Section of Mille Fiori ("a thousand flowers") installation showing 'organic, free flowing forms that evoke the natural world.'

This installation is probably connected to memories of his mother's garden.

#Chihuly Glass Exhibition […]

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At night outside, five colorful internally lighted fabric 'lanterns' shaped like mythical figures. All are brightly colored in a host of colors (reds, greens, yellows, orange) similar to animated characters and have exaggerated characteristics such as hair, facial features, and/or associated items such as signs or monuments. One is in a large green and gray cauldron. A few have clouds at their feet. The background is somewhat dark with some architectural supports barely visible, along with the top of a large blue internally lit 'lantern' building in the distance.

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Section of 'Dragon Gives Birth to Nine Sons', showing five of the nine mythical creatures which represent unique traits.

Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

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Multiple colorful internally lighted fabric 'lanterns' shaped like water lilies, other flowers, and dragonflies. The largest water lily is about two meters (yards) wide fully extended and is pink and white. There are about a dozen smaller lilies of the same color. There are tall slim green-stemmed flowers with yellow flowers with pink polka dots. The dragonflies, with wingspans of over a meter (yard), are attached to tree trunks, two to three per tree. At least four such decorated trees are visible. The background is fully dark with some pine tree trunks barely visible.

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Water Lilies and Dragonflies
Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

Large lily is animated - opens and closes.

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@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChineseLanterns #TravelPhotography #Travel

A colorful internally lighted fabric 'lantern' shaped like a dinosaur on two legs, but with red-colored horns on head. It is about 3 meters (yards) long, tip to end of tail. There is detailing visible on the 'skin' that approximates scales, the tail having stripes. The skin and tail are a pale blue-green with darker spots of same color. The underbelly is yellow and brown. The open mouth is bright scarlet. The background and surrounds is fully dark with some pine tree trunks barely visible, but there are sections visible of bright green tropical type internally-lighted fabric plants.

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Dinosaur
Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

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@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChineseLanterns #TravelPhotography

A ceiling panel covered fully in circular or oval glass figures of different sizes suggestive of ocean jellies. They are backlit. All have thin concentric rings that enhance the rippled shapes. Colors are blues, reds, yellows, oranges, and greens. Most are overlapping each other, creating other color combinations. Also present are small shapes and spirals sprinkled around the scene suggestive of sea plants and other animals. The panel is about 2 meters/yards long and a meter/yard wide.

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Everyone seemed to like the view of the ceiling panel, so here is another. It is made up of individual glass sculptures inspired by sea creatures and plants.

#Chihuly Glass Exhibition
#BiltmoreEstate
#Asheville NC

@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChihulyGlass #TravelPhotography

A shiny opaque red glass ball with a bit of a crackly effect and a glittery red ribbon around the middle, vertically. It's catching bits of coloured light reflected from lights unseen. Behind, in the top two thirds of the image is a crinkled gold foil paper, blurred, reflecting light in a thousand places in gold, orange, green, blue and white- like some very expensive sequined handbag. The lower bit of background is featureless medium grey. The edges have a white vignette effect.

A string of small very shiny opaque cobalt blue glass balls with fancy dull silvery attachments on a narrow blue ribbon with silver trim. ne ball is in sharp focus near centre, one each partly seen at the edges of upper left and lower right. The background is light with the glow from a couple of coloured lights- a washed out yellow and a green, and a bit of overall purple-blue glow. there's a bit of gold tinsel garland showing at the top and some diaphanous ribbon coming from the left. White vignette effect on the edges.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23 +24 more of our #festive #decorations call them #Christmas or #Solstice either way we keep them up for many weeks- especially the #lights - to brighten the dark months.
#MidWinter #WinterBright #Holiday #WinterSolstice #PaganSky

Multiple colorful internally lighted fabric 'lanterns' shaped like lotus flowers, frogs, dragonflies, and a large snake (at least 8 meters long), but whimsically colored. The dragonflies, with wingspans of over a meter (yard), are attached to tree trunks, two to three per tree. At least four such decorated trees are visible. Frogs and flowers are scattered along the ground. The background is fully dark with some pine tree trunks barely visible.

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Snake and Dragonflies
Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

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@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChineseLanterns #TravelPhotography

Multiple colorful internally lighted fabric 'lanterns' shaped like structures and animals found in the sea, but whimsically colored. On the left, the rear of a yellow and green fish is visible, with realistic details on fins. Behind that and to the right is a representation of coral. There is a half-dome shaped mound in light green with blue and pink polka-dots about a meter (yard) in diameter. From it grows blue curvy trumpet-shaped structures and a blue jelly all 1/3 meter to a meter tall. There is then ground visible - it is night time - with pine needles and some oak leaves. Next to the right there is a blue, purple and pink branching structure shaped like kelp over a meter high. To the right of that is a yellow and brown starfish about half a meter tall. To the right of that is a yellow and brown coral shape with spikes thick protruding from a central core. Beyond is another yellow fish and a segment of something like blue coral in front of a section of something bright pink. The background is fully dark with some pine tree trunks barely visible.

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Section of Large Seascape
Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

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@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChineseLanterns #TravelPhotography

This is complex and difficult to describe. A ceiling panel covered fully in circular or oval glass figures of different sizes suggestive of ocean jellies. They are backlit. All have thin concentric rings that enhance the rippled shapes. Colors are blue, red, yellow, orange, green. Most are overlapping each other, creating other color combinations. Also present are small shapes and spirals sprinkled around the scene. The panel is about 2 meters/yards long and a meter/yard wide.

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View of ceiling panel made up of individual glass sculptures inspired by sea creatures and plants.

#Chihuly Glass Exhibition
#BiltmoreEstate
#Asheville NC

@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChihulyGlass #TravelPhotography

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Entrance
Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChineseLanterns #TravelPhotography

Three vertical sculptures made of a multitude of long yellow-green glass spikes radiating outward from a vertical core. One, in back, is two meters /six feet tall. In front on the left is one half that size. In front ands center of the view is one a third of the size of the large one. The sculpture is partially reflected in glass that makes up the base.

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Glass sculpture
#Chihuly Glass Exhibition
#BiltmoreEstate
#Asheville NC

@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

At night, a large internally-lighted realistic-looking thin paper sculpture of a purple seahorse with red belly. It is about 2.5 meters (yards) tall. In the background are pine tree trunks and colorful sections of other lanterns with undersea theme, like kelp and starfish.

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Seahorse
Chinese Lantern Festival
#CaryNC
(through January 25, 2025)

@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

#ChineseLantern #TravelPhotography

A 2 meter /six foot tall sculpture made of a multitude of long blue glass spikes radiating outward from a vertical core. The sculpture is partially reflected in glass that makes up the base.

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This sculpture has an icy feel.

Glass sculpture
#Chihuly Glass Exhibition
#BiltmoreEstate
#Asheville NC

@vlrny
@lonelinesscorps

#ChihulyGlass #TravelPhotography

@vlrny @lonelinesscorps

A large memorial made out of large bricks of light grey granite. From this view, the memorial has a tall rectangular base and rises with shallow curving angle to flat top with a small unclear horizontal figure, perhaps 7 meters (yards) tall. There are striations in the bricks from the bottom left to the right and top-right. Half the sun peeks over the top causing a sunburst effect in the photo. Wispy white clouds are in a light blue sky. The ground is made up of light gray bricks in a circular pattern emanating from the memorial. Some people walk and sit at the base.

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📷 Today I begin a series of photos to celebrate winter #solstice and to lighten up the long nights in the Northern Hemisphere. These will focus on lighted glass sculptures, Chinese lanterns and light-themed photos from my travels.

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