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Dallas Arboretum Photo Competition

Our judges spent hours poring over more than 700 entries.  Each was precious in its own way, but some snapshots stood out from the rest.  PLUS: a sneak peak at the Dallas Arboretum’s marvelous expansion plans.
By D Magazine |

the four seasons
garden photography contest
presented by The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden and D Home and Garden

Last spring,
we invited children and amateur and professional photographers to descend upon the Dallas Arboretum with cameras and participate in our first-ever photo competition. Our motives were many and varied. First, we wanted more people to visit the Arboretum and figured a contest would draw some new faces. Second, the Arboretum is always looking for artwork, and this seemed like a swell way to get some photography.  

Some photography? We received more than 700 entries over the course of the year. Judging 700-plus photographs is no walk in the park, so to speak, so a major thank you goes to the judges: Talley Dunn, co-owner of Dunn and Brown Contemporary; Nic Nicosia, an artist who works in photography and film; and Todd Johnson, design director of D Home and D Magazine. These three spent hours poring over piles and piles of negatives, transparencies, slides, and prints. Each entry was precious in its own way, but some snapshots stood out from the rest. Here, in the pages that follow, is the wonderful work they recognized as the best.

AMATEUR DIVISION

Amateur Floral

First Place
Cay Kolb

Second Place
Linda Clark

Third Place
Andrew Cerino

Amateur People in Nature

First Place
Chris Cook

Second Place
Sherry Buchanan

Third Place
John A. Lovelace

Amateur Experimental

First Place
Ron Henderson

Second Place
Nikki King

Third Place
Debra Stich

Children Division

 

Children Floral

First Place
Jessika Stewart

Second Place
Jena Jessen

Third Place
Elijah DeHaan

Children Experimental

First Place
Chase Hoover

Second Place
Chase Hoover

Third Place
Jessika Stewart

Children People in Nature

First Place
Kaitlyn Stewart

Professional Division

 

Professional Floral

First Place
Gerald Goldwyn

Second Place
Marco A. Medina

Third Place
Kim Ritzenthaler

Professional People in Nature

First Place
Reagan Green

Professional Experimental

First Place
Teri Novelen

 

Growing Dallas Arboretum

 

 

A First Peek at the Phase II Master Plan for the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

My guess is that Mary Brinegar, the president of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden, has never really played in the dirt. She’s just not that kind. Even if her life depended on it, she probably couldn’t coax a bloom out of a gardenia plant and wouldn’t presume to tell you whether a coneflower was a perennial or an annual.

Yet in the paradoxical way the world works, Mary is creating the most astonishing, even audacious, garden in Dallas. Rather than seeds, she has sown the ideas of the best and the brightest horticultural experts, planners, and civic leaders—and, to achieve that end, has also probably endured a thousand meetings. Gardening can be very hard work.

This little map is the first look at the second phase of the Arboretum’s master plan. The plans call for a new path throughout the Arboretum to accommodate walkers and vehicles separately, as well as (my favorite) a Children’s Garden; a new stage for the concert lawn; Skyline Hall, a dramatic event facility overlooking White Rock Lake; greenhouses installed over underground parking; moonlight gardens; better research beds; and more take-home gardening ideas presented on-site, to give you just an idea.

Certainly, the plans will require more meetings, much debate, and the awesome responsibility to preserve the integrity of the garden, nay, improve upon it. But I have complete confidence that great things lie ahead.

The way I look at it, if I help to support that Children’s Garden now, it should be ready for my grandchildren just about the time I want to retire. That’s my plan, anyway.

Please join me in supporting the Dallas Arboretum.

—Christine Allison

 

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