Balboa Park Botanical Building - San Diego California
by Ram Vasudev
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Balboa Park Botanical Building - San Diego California
Artist
Ram Vasudev
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Description
Botanical Building, Balboa Park, San Diego, California in early morning light.
Balboa Park is a 1,200-acre urban park. In addition to open space areas, natural vegetation zones, green belts, gardens and walking paths, it contains museums, several theaters, and the San Diego Zoo. Placed in reserve in 1835, the park's site is one of the oldest in the United States dedicated to public recreational use.
The Botanical Building with the Lily Pond in the foreground, as seen in this photo, is one of the most admired scenes in Balboa Park. Built for the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition, along with the adjacent Lily Pond, the historic building is glassless and one of the largest lath structures in the world. It is 250 feet long by 75 feet wide and 60 feet tall. The plants in the building include more than 2,100 permanent plants, featuring fascinating collections of cycads, ferns, orchids, other tropical plants, palms, and many vibrant seasonal flower displays.
In addition to prints available here through FAA, the image is also available for rights-managed licensing at
http://licensing.pixels.com/profiles/ram-vasudev.html?tab=artwork
Copyright © Ram Vasudev. All rights reserved.
Thanks to the following groups for featuring this work:
(1) Excellent Self-Taught Artists, 11/28/2013
(2) All Things Reflective, 12/07/2013
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November 28th, 2013
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Comments (31)
Audrey Wilkie
I love this composition, reflection, colors and light. Everything is wonderful in this image, well done Ram!!
Weston Westmoreland
Very nice. So hard to catch perfectly still waters. The whole thing has a starwarsian touch to it.