During the post-covid years, my wife and I have made sure that we visit the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill during one of the highlights of their season: Night Lights! During the holiday season, the creative staff at Tower Hill does an amazing job in creating a lights display that is a feast for the senses.
Artful approaches to lighting trees, shrubbery and placing a number of strategic gnomes to keep an eye on proceedings, they are everywhere. Colors show up in many locations and angles of lighting of the trees create for opportunities of both discovering new structure and seeing into arboreal soul…
Some of our visits in past years have been on evenings that were bitterly cold, and being atop Tower Hill was a challenge during those times; this year, the weather was perfect with only a light breeze and pleasant November temperature. Walking along the rainbow path was particularly stimulating and refreshing…
A great big thank you to the staff at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill for creating yet another stunning display! I will share more photos in upcoming posts.
One additional note: this time around I took all the photos with my new iPhone 16 Pro Max. I set the camera to Raw Max mode and use the Night setting; this produces some spectacularly large files in DNG format, which are well worth the storage space, as I’m impressed with the quality produced. My edits were minimal with a little bit of sharpening and contrast/exposure adjustment. More experiments will follow!