The Art of Landscape Lighting by Lennox Moyer Janet;

Author:Lennox Moyer, Janet;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Snow’s Effect on Landscape Lighting

Even though the view is nothing special, looking out this living room window, with the snow on the Azalea shrub’s leaves and light in the woods, it feels as if you’re connected, without getting cold or wet.

This is the view from my sleeping porch in Upstate NY where I lived for nearly 20 years. Having that view from my bathroom tub was a wonderful joy. Every night it was dark unless ILLI (see page 326) was conducting a class, and then it was amazing for a couple of nights.

This little Maple was a demonstration tree just outside my office. We lit it as a young tree, as you see here with downlight and uplight. The snow gives it such character, and the shadows on the snow from the downlight add the magic.

Nothing though, is as amazing as seeing this same view covered by the bounty of snow. It is like fairy land, and when you add light to that, there is just nothing better.

Looking out this Lake Tahoe cabin window in the summer is wonderful, but snow on the ground adds depth to the scene.

This is looking along a stream behind the cabin during the day, summer night, and winter night. It seems amazing to me how different each scene looks, even though I know it is the same. The snow adds another dimension to reality and gives us another world to inhabit for a few nights or, if lucky, a few months.

Summer night out my dining room window in Upstate New York. I had waited years to see the Maple.

In the mid-fall, the Maple steals the scene with its changing bright red colors.

Then in the winter the Maple takes a back seat, and the snow blanket just demands your attention. But the snow cover is always fleeting. I loved being able to admire it from inside most nights because it was lit. Lighting erases the black mirrors that windows become at night and gives us art.

In some locations, snow pack of varying height stays for the whole winter so we have to plan how to still welcome guests yet allow them to move around.

Night takes away a lot of our sense of surroundings, so we have to decide what to give ourselves back for safety and aesthetics.

Here, Lighting Research Center (LRC) students have put ring-mount fixtures in the trees to light the shoveled path. They also uplit trees along the way to increase our sense of space, and moved a water feature to the end of the path to provide a visual destination.

This forest edge was seen from the back of my Upstate NY home. Over the 18 years it changed quite a bit as I developed the gardens.

Early on, an LRC student design team lit that forest as a spectacular view from the house, using primarily metal halide, with a little incandescent to show depth into the forest.

LRC students helped me study the effect of snow on lighting in garden spaces. A 2000 design team was the first to play with light on this Acer platinoides/Norway Maple tree.

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