A friend of mine from up in Chicago has been working on a new exhibit at the Garfield Conservatory, called "Sugar from the Sun", an exhibit explaining how plants take energy from the sun and turn it into sugar, my friend does water features and steel sculptures and it just so happens he used stone he purchased from me to build the waterfall, tonight was the unveiling of the exhibit so I went down to see what it was all about and took some cool photos of the waterfall and some cactus pics from the conservatory. If you ever come up to Chi-Town, (and I know some of you are thinking, "NO WAY!" but if you do...) , check out the Garfield Conservatory and this exhibit.

a few pics from tonight...

http://www.siloutdoors.com/imagehosting/31447c7945b12727.jpg

http://www.siloutdoors.com/imagehosting/31447c7945b57873.jpg

http://www.siloutdoors.com/imagehosting/31447c7945b925b6.jpg

http://www.siloutdoors.com/imagehosting/31447c7945bccb28.jpg

http://www.siloutdoors.com/imagehosting/31447c7945c13dfb.jpg

and these are from my ol' TZ1 P&S.

Your friend did a great job.

another cactus photo, and all these without a tripod...:eek:

http://www.siloutdoors.com/imagehosting/31447c79c62a118c.jpg

Huntrz, I lvoe these..........they are awesome......good job!!

Good work Huntrz! That sounds like such a cool project..do you have a link about his project by any chance?

Good work Huntrz! That sounds like such a cool project..do you have a link about his project by any chance?

this is the only link I could find to the project;
http://www.garfield-conservatory.org/sugar.htm

http://www.chicagoextremepools.com/what_were_up_to_today/index.asp

I know they documented the whole building process of the exhibit from start to finish with some time lapse photography for a possible future PBS documentary. The actual building part of exhibit started in September and they just finished it up.

here's his website
http://www.chicagoextremepools.com/index.asp

Thanks Huntrz! I appreciate it!

sellin rock for art...must have been one of the cooler bids...

sellin rock for art...must have been one of the cooler bids...
definitely one of the cool parts of the job, seeing the stone used in a project like this that will seen by thousands of people and be around longer than I will, supposedly it will be there for 100 years!