Sunday, April 24, 2011

Spring in Full Swing

New Dawn
Fishn' story begins
Preparing for take off

Sawtooth
Big Friends
Huddle
Caged Greens
Pansies

Glowing
You look'n at ME!
Is this my best side?
S-Curve
Fuzzies

Dripping wet.


Enjoy the day.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Blowing Glass

Tempting Globes
Potential Color

Colored Silica Not sand
Super Heated
Tools of the Trade

Preheating
Adding hot color to hot glass
A color cap
Embedding Granules
Reheating
Swirling Color
Back to the Furnace
Puffs of Air
Holding Breath
Shaping
Forming
Expanding
Newspaper Shaper
Flattening
Transferring
Widening
Narrowing
Crimping
Triumphant Finish

These pictures taken at the AZ Renaissance Festival include different glass demonstrations from different angels. The process of blowing glass lasting hundreds of years.


Sunday, April 10, 2011

Roses and more

Gagged and waiting to be blown-up.
The Queen of the Fair reacts.
To-ing and Fro-ing

He braids hair...
Butterfly on a stick
Trojan horse retired
Storming the walls.
Dragon's Castle

Elegant Roses





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