'Light through the Trees: Photographs at the Morton Arboretum' by Peter Vagt honors the 100th anniversary of the Morton Arboretum.
Twenty years, 84 pictures. That’s how long it took photographer Peter Vagt to get all the images that showcase the majesty of the landscape that is the Morton Arboretum — nowTo celebrate the arboretum’s centennial, the former Chicago-area resident who is now living in Nashville produced the book “Light Through the Trees: Photographs at the Morton Arboretum,” a tribute to the “tree museum.
And they have a lot of people that volunteer there, who really make it a wonderful place to be. When my wife has a plant that has got a bug on it, you can take it in to their research center, and they can tell you what it is and how to fix it. They are a resource for trees and arboreal things. A: My pictures have been in the store at the arboretum since 1999. I started taking pictures and the first one I took was Cathedral Pines. Coming out of college, that was one of the places that I would go to because it was a very peaceful, quiet place that you could just walk into it silent, with that piney smell and the soft ground. It was like going into a cathedral for me.
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