I've been photographing the World Ice Sculpting Championships in Fairbanks for 15 years. Throughout this time, many amazing sculptures have been created by artists from all over the world. One in particular stands out to me, and the numerous fist place medals to his name attest to his talents. Fairbanks sculptor Vladimir Zhikhartsev, originally from Russia, now living in the US, has quite a skill for working with ice. From a photographer's perspective, his work is always interesting, not just compositionally, but because he has perfected the use of texture on the ice, and this is critical when it comes time to lighting the sculpture. Below are a number of frames from this year's piece titled "Pandoras Box". "1st place in the abstract category of the 2009 World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks, Alaska. Sculpted by Vladimir Zhikhartsev, Vitaly Lednev, Aaron Costic, Joshua Kang.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
2009 Mulit-Block Ice Art Winner
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2 comments:
I am not that good at this laptop but, your pictures are great...thanks.....believe it or not when I was going out with my husband, he promised me to take me to Alaska...for our 15 wedding anniv...we are married 50 yrs. now and so far I just see and enjoy pictures....I thank you....Ginny
Ginny,
You still have time for a visit to Alaska :-)
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