A Year in Photos: Wax Museum

A Year in Photos

Photography, fiction, and personal essays form my three primary creative outlets. For this blog's first 18 months, I used it primarily for photography. As I've returned to creative writing, I'll use this blog for fiction, too. Sometimes, when reality needs to be discussed more than truth, I write personal essays.

This blog will continue to showcase as many above-average photos as I can muster. Hopefully my written work will be as good or better than the visual. Whichever drew you here -- photographs or fiction, I hope you enjoy both.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Nightmares in Wax: Parts 2 of 2

For the second part of this post, we have the entertainers. Cleopatra herself may not have been an entertainers.

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Liz Taylor as Cleopatra

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Mata Hari. Okay, technically not an entertainer, either. This blog is off to a weak start.

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Whistler's Mother. Paintings can entertain, right? Well, I can tell you for sure she doesn't LOOK entertained.

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Another painting.

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A scene from the Sermon on the Mount

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Vivien Leigh

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Tom Hanks

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Groucho Marx

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The Tin Man

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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson is her real name.)

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Bonus picture so both days' posts give you terrible dreams. Salvador Dali looking quite frightening.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Nightmares in Wax: Parts 1 of 2

Today I've got 10 low-key portraits from the San Francisco wax museum at Fisherman's Wharf. These are all wax figures -- sculptures -- though some look incredibly lifelike. Most of these were shot wide-open and at high ISOs due to the very low light in the museum. I don't recall who all of these figures are.

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