Ever since moving back to Lawrence, I’ve been meaning to take some photos of this sculpture on the KU campus. It’s a structure built of woven branches that surrounds a tree so that the living branches grow through its walls (I’ll have to get the name of it and the artist after the big pile of snow melts that’s currently covering the plaque). I have some ideas for a night shot but just haven’t managed to make the 2 mile trek over some evening to do it. The local shots are always the hardest, aren’t they? I suppose it’s because you can do them anytime so why bother now. Maybe the light will be better tomorrow night, etc. etc.

Another light snow last night — maybe two or three inches — and I decided to check out my sculpture and see if the snow added anything. As it turned out, it didn’t stick as well to the branches as I’d hoped, but it was still a good opportunity to scope the site out for my later return for a night shot. What I’d had in mind isn’t exactly going to work, but I now have some new ideas. The night shot doesn’t require snow, though, so I think I’ll wait for it to warm up a bit.

Here’s a shot I did like from this morning, though. It’s taken from inside the sculpture (yes — it’s big enough to have a small party in there) looking out at the Natural History Museum. I toned it with a color overlay layer in Photoshop to give it a little eerie coolness. It’s a shame that I’m limited to 500 pixels in width here because it has a great texture when you see it really large.