Last Sunday we decided to visit the Chicago Botanic Garden to check out their new butterfly exhibit. I was quite impressed. There were more butterflies fluttering about than I’ve ever seen at other similar exhibits in various states I visited and some species I had never encountered before, but I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.
Head on over to the complete set on Flickr for more, as well as some general pictures of the gardens.
They had an art fair going on the same day which was nice to browse. Some artists had taken their photos and had them printed on canvas which were stunning. Had they not been so pricey ($250) we probably would have come home with one to hang over the bed. It got me thinking about whether I should look into the cost of having one of my photos printed to canvas. It seemed the more abstract the photo (think minimal elements in the foreground with the background blurred), the better the effect. Some of them truly looked more like paintings than photographs.