LIGHTING


Left: The gazebo at South Botanic Garden is backlit in color in 2021.


Center: Glowing orbs illuminate the plant life in the Bubble Promenade.


At the core of the team’s design was color, taking Bog-


danovich out of his white light comfort zone. He learned how certain colors could highlight certain greenery and bark and how certain hues could look completely differ- ent depending on a plant’s lightness or darkness. “Doing things with color for the first time, especially


at this scale, was an eye-opener,” Bogdanovich says. “A lot of it was done by trial and error. We had an idea of what we wanted to do, and sometimes as were setting some- thing up, we’d change the colors because of the way it looked on certain specimens.” Using new recipes of light and color, the team devised themes like coral reefs, rivers and sea life. Bogdanovich’s favorite section was the banyan grove,


home to the garden’s extensive collection of Moreton Bay fig trees. Te lighting team bathed it in vibrant blue and green lighting, concocting cyan, azure, emerald and lime tints when the lighting mixed. Using white-colored string lights with a chasing effect, Bogdanovich and his team crafted imitation rainfall with a wintery feel. Fast-paced classical music echoed along the trees’ twisting root sys- tems and into their leafy foliage above. “We wanted to really create an impact,” Bogdanovich


says. THE INSTALLATION PROCESS


Designing a fantastical garden, setting the perimeter of the lighting and making sure everything was navigable were the


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easy parts, Bogdanovich says. Te aspects that were outside of the six-person lighting team’s wheelhouse primarily in the installation process brought the real challenges. Logistically, the project took a lot of service hours,


thought, energy and teamwork, he says. One of the greatest difficulties was working with the garden’s outdated electri- cal infrastructure, which left certain areas of the outdoor space without any power. California Outdoor Lighting brought in generators to provide supplementary power and learned how to balance loads between generators and transformers. Bogdanovich says it took the group some time to figure


out how to light the larger plants, like some of the garden’s 100-foot pine trees. For the taller specimens, the team used a grazing technique, setting lights on the outskirts. Safety was also a top concern, as Bogdanovich says that


the garden is completely dark without any lighting. Tey highlighted certain specimens that led attendees through certain areas and walkways so it was clear where the path was. “Tere was a lot of thought put in light placement,”


Bogdanovich says. To define a walkway across a 700-foot dirt road, Cal-


ifornia Outdoor Lighting coupled overhead poles with lights and wave washers, fashioning what looked like a flowing river cascading down the path. Tracing the arti- ficial river, trees were coated with different colored lights, and hedges were embellished with blinking LED lamps to establish a firefly effect.


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Right: Anthony Bogdanovich, the general manager and lead designer of California Outdoor Lighting, enjoys a moment of fun while installing two of the 110 varied size spheres for Glow’s Bubble Promenade during the holiday lighting installation’s second edition in 2021.


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