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The famous tree at Rockefeller Center, New York City. Fellow Redbubbler Lou-Garew looked it up and says that this year’s tree is an 80-ft. Norway spruce that survived hurricane Sandy. He reports that It is covered with about 30,000 lights attached to some 5 miles of wiring! Doing further research I discovered that the tree is from the Mount Olive, N.J., home of Joe Balku and was topped by a Swarovski star. The 10-ton tree had been at the homestead for years, measuring about 22-feet tall in 1973 when Balku bought the house. Shot with a Canon 5D MKII and treated to a little time in Photoshop.
12/21/2012 FEATURED in the redbubble group DOWNTOWN
12/23/2012 FEATURED in the redbubble group ARTISTS UNIVERSE
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Artwork Comments
That is beautiful,,,must look great at night!!!
It sure does with those 30,000 twinkling lights! Thanks very much for the kind words Dorothy, here’s hoping the holiday season brings much merriment to you and yours. Cheers.
I can bet that it came frome one of the farms around here (the Christmas Tree capital of the country). Even the White House gets theirs from here. Awesome capture my friend!!!
Back on the last post I made of the NY tree Lou-Garew reported that this year’s tree is an 80-ft. Norway spruce that survived hurricane Sandy. I don’t know where it grew up though but he says it will be covered with about 30,000 lights attached to some 5 miles of wiring! Some tree! Thanks and have yourself a great and very merry Christmas JR.
Ok, I just looked it up and found this; Illuminated by more than 30,000 lights, the tree from the Mount Olive, N.J., home of Joe Balku was topped by a Swarovski star. The 10-ton tree had been at the homestead for years, measuring about 22-feet tall in 1973 when Balku bought the house.
So it’s a New Jersey tree! :-)
Excellent Chris!
Hi Chris, thanks so much and may this holiday season bring peace to you and yours as well, cheers
Looks great even in the daytime…I’d hate to be the poor sod who had to go all the way to the top with the star, though! And thanks for the mention…appreciate that!
They have a replica of the star on display at ground level, it’s about five feet across and looks pretty heavy so I would imagine that they used the crane to get that up there but someone must have been up there too to make sure it was fixed in place properly! You earned the mention my friend, you did the research! :-) I’m still amazed by the amount of wire involved! Thanks for the comment, cheers.
That’s awesome news!! Now I can get the farmers around here in an up-roar with that tib bit of information. LOL They’ll love me for it.
Haha, that sounds like fun :-) You devil you!!
Thrilling news! Thanks so much Graham, I’m very honored and grateful to you, cheers.