Madame Tussaud's Celebrity Encounter is an anchor attraction for the Venetian Hotel. When you enter the first main display area, the room is arranged as a cocktail party. You are free to walk among "the stars" and a couple of times I was puzzling over the identity of someone and they moved! A very surreal experience! I particularly appreciated the "closeness" you are allowed which provides wonderful photo opportunities.

Graphic Artist's Notes: These images were all taken with a Sony Mavica FD-81 digital camera with 3X zoom. To minimize glare and maximize the lush colors of the clothing I disabled the flash. After reducing each image to the desired size, sharpening, and adjusting the brightness, contrast, and color levels as needed, I framed them with CreativePro's Online PhotoFrame selecting black for the frame color to blend with this page's night sky background The title image was created with Cool Text's Neon text style selecting the color from the custom option. The glittering stars were produced with Animagic using the Fade In and Fade Out Options and setting the repeat interval for the base image to three different settings to produce stars that blink at different rates.

Although I loved my visit to the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, California, I wish I could have gotten as close to the sculptures there as I did at Madame Tussaud's.