Where is the famous National Geographic tree? A: The Portland Japanese Garden! This beautiful tree was planted in 1968 and has grown to be one of the most photographed trees in the world.
Some of his most famous work include Tree of Life, Phantom, Ghost, One, Eternal Beauty, Moonlit Dreams, Enchanted Morning, Ocean Window, Le Reve and two of my favorites from the airplane series called Sky Titan and First Flight. What he has on display is nothing short of breath-taking, and the way he presents his galleries just screams luxury in the fine art market. If you’ve ever walked into one of the Lik galleries, you were likely blown away by the presentation and beauty of many of the images. If someone loves a photo enough to purchase it for $6.5 million, then more power to that art collector and the artist who created the piece of fine art that sold for that much. The Phantom is a beautiful shot of a light beam in Antelope Canyon. There was a lot of press back in 2015 when Peter Lik sold the world’s most expensive photograph titled “The Phantom.” Some of it was good and some was bad. It was his Aspen, Colorado gallery that I first visited more than a decade ago. Lik Fine Art has more a dozen galleries located in Aspen, Soho, La Jolla, Key West, Dallas, Chicago, Madison Avenue in New York, Washington DC, Lahaina and Waikiki in Hawaii along with four in Las Vegas including the famous Caesers, Venetian, Mandalay and the Forum. I’m an admirer of both the marketing genius and style of Peter Lik. Like I said before, I know when I saw Peter Lik’s “Tree of Life” fine art print for sale at his gallery, it was the first image of the famous tree that grabbed my attention. I’m sure other photographers shot similar images before Peter Lik, but his marketing power and celebrity status certainly helped give rise to “the tree” as we know it. Arguably, it was Peter Lik and his “Tree of Life” fine art print that made the Portland Japanese Garden maple tree photograph famous. Originally from Australia, he moved to the United States and has opened many successful photography galleries in a number of high-end locations such as Aspen, Soho, Las Vegas and Maui. If you’re a nature photographer that follows other photographers, it’s likely you’ve come across Peter Lik’s work before. Who is Peter Lik? And what is his “Tree of Life” fine art print? Thunderbird - Prints Available The beautiful Portland Japanese Garden maple tree in autumn In this article, I want to not only talk a little about the tree and the garden, but also share some of my own limited edition fine art prints of the Portland Japanese maple tree and the Portland Japanese Garden. As you might have guessed, I have also created a few fine art prints of the tree.
It took me a number of years to finally visit the gardens, but I did just that back in October.
It took me a while to figure out what it was, but I finally found the answer: the Portland Japanese Garden. I tried doing some research and found many other photographers had captured it. It captured my imagination from the moment I saw it. I believe it was in Las Vegas but it could have been his Aspen gallery. I first learned about the Portland Japanese Garden’s famous Japanese maple tree from seeing a large fine art print of “Tree of Life” for sale in one of Peter Lik’s galleries. It’s said by many that there is no Japanese garden outside of Japan that is more impressive than the Portland Japanese Garden.