From April 22 to October 29, 2017, the New York Botanical Garden hosted an installation of glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly. The images displayed here are from my visit to the garden on the evening of June 17th—one of the “CHIHULY Nights” on which the garden remained open until 10:30 PM and the sculptures were artificially lighted.

I treated my Botanical Garden visit as if it had been an academic photography class assignment. Prior to the visit I intentionally avoided viewing the Chihuly sculpture images of other photographers posted on the web. From the time of my first photograph until the last the duration was less than an hour and 35 minutes. During that tine I made 72 images from which I selected the 12 images for display in this online gallery.

• Sony NEX-6 (16.1 MP APS-C CMOS sensor)
• Sony E-mount 35mm f/1.8 OSS
• Sigma E-mount 60mm f/2.8 DN

All images were recorded in RAW format, processed in Adobe Lightroom 5 (some with retouching in GIMP 2.10.22), and exported in JPEG format.

Full-sized images in the gallery can be accessed in either of two ways. Each such image has a thumbnail version on this page which when clicked will display the full-sized image and associated extended caption. Upon acessing a full-sized image, additional such images can be accessed by sequential forward or backward movement through the gallery using either each image’s web page navigational arrows or your browsing device’s left/right arrow keys.