Las Noches de Las Luminarias

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Our favorite event of the year since we moved to Phoenix is the annual xmas lights at Papago Park Botanical Gardens. This year surpassed the last two by a mile as, in addition to the normal holiday lights (candles in paper bags spread around the park, trees & cacti covered in lights), they also had all their Chihully exhibit lit up, which looked absolutely amazing.

If you remember from my recent post, this is Chihully glass artwork spread amongst the cacti all around this amazingly beautiful park. I remembered the camera and spare batteries, but when we got to the park I suddenly realized I'd forgotten my tripod - grrrr! Still a lot of the pictures came out pretty well, and I really experimented with the camera's settings to try & get better night shots then I had on our previous 2 visits.

My photos (here) don't even began to capture how stunning this was to experience, but if you're not in Phoenix right now this is as close as you're gonna get... enjoy them now, and start saving up for a flight for next December ;-)