Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden - Flowers Along the Path
by Anita Pollak
Title
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden - Flowers Along the Path
Artist
Anita Pollak
Medium
Photograph - Photograph With Filters, Photopainting
Description
Seal Harbor, Maine, USA
I was fortunate to visit the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine as part of a garden photography workshop last week. This was my first visit to the garden, which is only open to the public for limited hours from July to early September.
The garden is now owned by the Land and Garden Preserve, which also owns Thuya Garden and Asticou Azalea Garden, two places we have been to many times, and love to visit when we travel to Acadia National Park.
The garden was designed by Beatrix Farrand and incorporates many Asian art objects collected by the Rockefellers. It is surrounded by a beautiful Chinese wall, and you enter through a series of formal gates.
From the Land and Garden Preserve Web site:
"The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine was created between 1926 and 1930 by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and noted garden designer Beatrix Farrand. Set within acres of moss-carpeted woods, the garden is designed to be at floral peak in August. Its unique atmosphere is derived from a combination of Eastern statuary with a border garden in which perennials build the foundation of the flower beds and annuals provide an explosion of color."
This photo captures one of the many gravel paths leading to a lovely door on the south side of the garden. It's so hard to capture the beauty of this amazing place in a photograph - what a joy it was to be there!
Processed in Photoshop with some basic adjustments and a touch of Topaz Impression.
Nikon D810 with Nikon 24-70mm lens at 32mm.
Special Feature in 1000 Views - 1/5/2023
Featured in the following FAA groups:
A Woman's Touch - 2/28/2023
1000 Views - 1/4/2023
ABC Group - 2/4/2022
All Glorious Gardens - 3/5/2020
The 200 Club - 9/7/2019
New England Photographs - 9/4/2019
No Place Like Home - 9/4/2019
Your Story of Art - 9/2/2019
Road to Self Promotion - 8/26/2019
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August 23rd, 2019
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Comments (116)
Gary F Richards
Congratulations on your Top Finish Place in the contest… HELLO 2025 CONTEST BY INVITE ONLY ! F/L
Kay Brewer
Anita, I love this everytime I see it! I voted for your outstanding entry in the Hello 2025 contest!
Lois Bryan
What a lovely place this must be ... and you certainly caught it at it's colorful highlight!! Beautifully composed and captured! I love this!!! f
Anita Pollak replied:
Thank you so much for your lovely words, dear Lois - it is an incredibly lovely place!
Karen Adams
Wow! What a stunningly beautiful scene! I am afraid if I was ever there it might be nightfall before I would leave! Wonderful capture of this beauty . . . . .f/l/tw
Celeste Mayne
Such a beautiful, tranquil setting! Love the color of the wall and the garden blooms! l/f
Sharon Williams Eng
What a spectacular garden and a beautiful image. Congratulations on being the Daily Special Feature in A Woman's Touch group.
Karen Beasley
Gorgeous garden capture! Congratulations on your special feature in a Woman’s Touch. LF
Sabina Pamfili
congratulations on the special feature, Abby. I am humbled to be a part of this group and have to admit that you are absolutely without a doubt a great artist. This piece of art is everything I can think of when I need peace, calm, beauty and the tweeting of birds.
Anita Pollak replied:
Oh Sabina, thank you so very much for your lovely words - you are so very kind!
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