North Carolina Arboretum Bloom with a View
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Annette and I stop by the North Carolina Arboretum whenever we visit Asheville, North Carolina, which we do frequently throughout the year. In fact, we visit so often that we purchase an annual membership each year, thus avoiding the daily parking fee. Our membership also includes affiliation with the American Horticultural Society’s Reciprocal Admissions Program which provides free entrance to hundreds of member parks, botanic gardens, and arboretums throughout the country. These photos are from our May, 2023 “Bloom with a View” visit.
The North Carolina Arboretum (434 acres) is an arboretum and botanical garden located within the Bent Creek Experimental Forest of the Pisgah National Forest at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, southwest of Asheville, North Carolina near the Blue Ridge Parkway It is open daily except for Christmas Day. There is no admission charge, but some parking fees do apply.
Although the idea for the arboretum stretches back to landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1898, who wished to create an arboretum at the nearby Biltmore Estate, today's arboretum was established by the General Assembly in 1986, as a facility of the University of North Carolina. In 1989 the site was officially designated the North Carolina Arboretum.
The arboretum is still under active development. It includes many hiking and bicycling trails, a bonsai collection, a holly garden, and a stream garden. Its tree collection includes a fine set of Metasequoias planted in 1950, and now said to be the tallest in the south (over 100 feet (30 m) in height). In 2016, a certification from Bee Campus USA recognized the arboretum's efforts to teach about and support pollinators.
Bloom with a View, is an immersive floral installation on the grounds of The North Carolina Arboretum. Throughout the gardens, colorful and festive planters elevate thousands of blooms to eye-level. It was fun to wander, explore and even lose ourselves among the flowers!
For its introductory year, “Bloom with a View” placed vibrant bursts of colorful hydrangeas prominently, with appearances by elegant calla lilies, with oriental and Asiatic lilies featured! The ocean of color provided an excellent avenue to wander meditatively, frolic among the flowers and take some really cool photos.
These photos with Topaz and Dynamic Auto Painter Pro effects were taken in March. I shot in RAW with my Nikon D750 camera and used Corel AfterShot Pro to convert the files. Then I used Topaz Denoise, Corel PaintShop Pro, and Luminar AI to further adjust and enhance the files in post processing. Finally, I used Dynamic Auto Painter Pro to add the softening and abstract pastel like painterly effects. I hope you enjoy!
The North Carolina Arboretum (434 acres) is an arboretum and botanical garden located within the Bent Creek Experimental Forest of the Pisgah National Forest at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, southwest of Asheville, North Carolina near the Blue Ridge Parkway It is open daily except for Christmas Day. There is no admission charge, but some parking fees do apply.
Although the idea for the arboretum stretches back to landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1898, who wished to create an arboretum at the nearby Biltmore Estate, today's arboretum was established by the General Assembly in 1986, as a facility of the University of North Carolina. In 1989 the site was officially designated the North Carolina Arboretum.
The arboretum is still under active development. It includes many hiking and bicycling trails, a bonsai collection, a holly garden, and a stream garden. Its tree collection includes a fine set of Metasequoias planted in 1950, and now said to be the tallest in the south (over 100 feet (30 m) in height). In 2016, a certification from Bee Campus USA recognized the arboretum's efforts to teach about and support pollinators.
Bloom with a View, is an immersive floral installation on the grounds of The North Carolina Arboretum. Throughout the gardens, colorful and festive planters elevate thousands of blooms to eye-level. It was fun to wander, explore and even lose ourselves among the flowers!
For its introductory year, “Bloom with a View” placed vibrant bursts of colorful hydrangeas prominently, with appearances by elegant calla lilies, with oriental and Asiatic lilies featured! The ocean of color provided an excellent avenue to wander meditatively, frolic among the flowers and take some really cool photos.
These photos with Topaz and Dynamic Auto Painter Pro effects were taken in March. I shot in RAW with my Nikon D750 camera and used Corel AfterShot Pro to convert the files. Then I used Topaz Denoise, Corel PaintShop Pro, and Luminar AI to further adjust and enhance the files in post processing. Finally, I used Dynamic Auto Painter Pro to add the softening and abstract pastel like painterly effects. I hope you enjoy!
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Elfoto1975 wrote:
Nice art work you got 👍 great set , and great reading
Thank You
Aug 30, 2023 22:48:54 #
Reuss Griffiths
Loc: Ravenna, Ohio
stavros wrote:
Annette and I stop by the North Carolina Arboretum... (show quote)
I like these a lot. It's fun to get creative with what I'm assuming are great floral photos and play with the tools at hand to arrive at images like these. You don't really have an end image in mind when you start but enjoy the process. I found from personal experience that if you don't know where you're going, it hard to know when you get there. You've obviously arrived in a good place. Great job, good show!
Aug 31, 2023 08:08:09 #
Reuss Griffiths wrote:
I like these a lot. It's fun to get creative with what I'm assuming are great floral photos and play with the tools at hand to arrive at images like these. You don't really have an end image in mind when you start but enjoy the process. I found from personal experience that if you don't know where you're going, it hard to know when you get there. You've obviously arrived in a good place. Great job, good show!
Thanks so much
Aug 31, 2023 13:03:59 #
stavros wrote:
Annette and I stop by the North Carolina Arboretum... (show quote)
Superb art work.
The writing is too.
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I really enjoyed this posting....even though it gave me a case of severe color overload. I enjoy doing interpretive work myself, working with rust covered objects. I get into a fair amount of PP work but not on the scale of what you apparently do. I'm in and out of Ashville a lot and never knew the Arboretum was there. Just from a love of plants and flowers, I'm definitely going to catch it next time I'm there.
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black mamba wrote:
I really enjoyed this posting....even though it gave me a case of severe color overload. I enjoy doing interpretive work myself, working with rust covered objects. I get into a fair amount of PP work but not on the scale of what you apparently do. I'm in and out of Ashville a lot and never knew the Arboretum was there. Just from a love of plants and flowers, I'm definitely going to catch it next time I'm there.
Thanks. By the way, I really enjoy your work also.
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