Zuzu, her photographs and perspectives are very good! When I was there, it was pouring rain, with heavy winds, and temperatures in the low 50's, so everyone came inside to the Grand Pavilion to get out of the rain for most of the day. It was unbelievably crowded, and very hard to maneuver around some of the displays.
However, that being said, I did walk around in the rain to see the outdoor garden installations, and was severely disappointed to discover that they did not begin to have the same creativity or complexity I saw in 2008. I kept walking around and around, thinking I had missed a turn off into some area of the grounds I had overlooked. Eventually, when I checked the map of the show, I confirmed that I had not missed anything.
I heard later that week that others had the same opinion - that this year's show just wasn't as good as previous shows. At $120 per ticket, I felt downright cheated. It's a shame, because this was the 100th anniversary. But perhaps the economy has something to do with it. When I was there in 2008, the world economy hadn't bottomed out yet, so perhaps the sponsors were more flush with cash back then, and gave the garden designers more to work with.
(Here's the link to the 2008 show I put up on my site:
http://www.lens-work.com/lens-...)
