2012 Cripple Creek Ice Festival

Decide to take some photos today of some of the ice sculptures before going into work. There are several ice sculptures along Bennett Ave. in Cripple Creek, CO. This years theme is a "Military Salute Carved in Ice". Some of the sculptures are of Uncle Sam,  an Eagle, U.S. Marine Corp. logo, ice slides, a maze, The Vietnam Wall, and more. The most popular one is probably the Vietnam Wall. The artist of this piece is taking names from people and he is carving them in the ice wall. I heard from a co-worker that there were people out there putting names on a clipboard for the artist to carve in the ice wall. Here are some photos that I took of the Vietnam Wall ice sculpture.

The other ice sculpture that is going to touch a lot hearts is the Fallen Soldier Memorial. This sculpture stands at least 10 feet high and is all carved out of ice. The only thing they forgot to add were the dog tags hanging from the gun. This sculpture was a favorite of mine. Here is the photo of the Fallen Soldier Memorial that I took. I tried to take this without having any of the casinos in the background.

Another favorite sculpture that I liked was the Prisoners of War logo. What I liked about this sculpture there just happened to be a United States of America flag next to it. This I think made the picture. This was probably my favorite photo that I took today. I think it turned out really good.

The last picture that I am using is the head of an eagle. I am standing almost directly under the sculpture. I wanted to try to get as much of the sky and clouds in this shot but I ended up getting some of the building in it. The picture still turned out pretty good.  I always try to get clouds in a photo if I am going to process the photo as an HDR. Well here is the picture.

All the photos in this blog were processed through Photomatix and I also used Corel Photo Impact to remove some of the noise in the photos.