The Garden Pavilion

by Darren Fisher

Title

The Garden Pavilion

Artist

Darren Fisher

Medium

Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art

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A gorgeous Autumn day in Bernheim Forest here in Kentucky. This is the Garden Pavilion and as you can see it is really beautiful and not only during the fall of the year. The day I captured this it was over cast and the water was calm. So the colors were popping and the reflections amazing. I have used effects along with textures that created a painterly look to the image.
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest is a 14,000 acre (57 km�) arboretum, forest, and nature preserve located in Clermont, Kentucky (25 miles south of Louisville, Kentucky, United States).

Bernheim was founded in 1929 by Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, a German immigrant and successful brewer whose whiskey distillery business established the I.W. Harper brand. He purchased the land in 1928 at $1 an acre because most of it had been stripped for mining iron ore. The Frederick Law Olmsted landscape architecture firm started work on designing the park in 1931 and it opened in 1950. Bernheim Forest was given to the people of Kentucky in trust and is the largest privately owned natural area in the state. Bernheim, his wife, daughter, and son-in-law are buried in the forest.

In 1988, at least one outside consulting firm was engaged and work on a new long-range plan for the forest was begun. One of the directives of the new strategic plan was to make the arboretum a primary focus. In addition, the forest decided to strengthen its research ties with institutions such as the University of Louisville. As a result, Bernheim Forest was renamed Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. However, most local visitors still refer to the property as "Bernheim Forest," and some of the signage located along surrounding roads still refer to the old name.

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October 29th, 2014

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