Walking in an alien wonderland
I'm really not a big fan of the seasonal Garden Lights extravaganza at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, at least not in the way that it's intended to be viewed which is at night. But I find myself nonetheless fascinated by some of the installations in daylight, in particular by the large number of slim ellipsoidal and squat spheroidal forms seen here arrayed here on the Garden's Grand Oval.
At night these husks serve as the housings for the colorful lights that are elements in a light show syncopated to holiday music. During the day they look more like an invading force of aliens whose faceless members are only distinguished in rank by their various heights and shapes. They strike me as something like the endpoint of the arc of Conehead evolution, calling back to that old Saturday Night Live staple.
Here, with no manipulation on my part I might add, you see that geometrical alien force reflected in one of the windows of the Garden's Fuqua Conservatory. The entrance of the conservatory is filled with flowering plants, mostly poinsettias. In this reflection the foreground and the background merge, creating what I think is a marvelous effect.
Walking in an alien wonderland
I'm really not a big fan of the seasonal Garden Lights extravaganza at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, at least not in the way that it's intended to be viewed which is at night. But I find myself nonetheless fascinated by some of the installations in daylight, in particular by the large number of slim ellipsoidal and squat spheroidal forms seen here arrayed here on the Garden's Grand Oval.
At night these husks serve as the housings for the colorful lights that are elements in a light show syncopated to holiday music. During the day they look more like an invading force of aliens whose faceless members are only distinguished in rank by their various heights and shapes. They strike me as something like the endpoint of the arc of Conehead evolution, calling back to that old Saturday Night Live staple.
Here, with no manipulation on my part I might add, you see that geometrical alien force reflected in one of the windows of the Garden's Fuqua Conservatory. The entrance of the conservatory is filled with flowering plants, mostly poinsettias. In this reflection the foreground and the background merge, creating what I think is a marvelous effect.