The LED Tree

[Joe_Lorenzini]

There's a house near where I live in Flower Mound that had a Dallas based company come out and put LED lights on a large tree in their yard. I talked with the owner one day as I was driving by and she said there are about 40,000 LED's on the tree and that it takes a grand total of ONE dollar per day to light (she leaves it on 24/7). It takes more energy to run a load of laundry than to power the tree for 24 hours.

Anyway, here's a shot during dusk and one at night. The tree is SO bright you can see it for miles.

Dusk when you could just start seeing the LED's:


At night... You can see the normal colored "white" lights on the house to the left:


Very cool tree. The glow is something to see.

_/oe

[Debbi]

Very cool. Love the sky in the first one.

[jerrykr]

beautiful shots Joe!

[Kar]

Nice!

Joe, Didn't you take a picture of a Christmas tree last year out in the snow, it was blue I believe.

This picture some how reminds me of it.

[Joe_Lorenzini]

Originally Posted by Kar

Nice!

Joe, Didn't you take a picture of a Christmas tree last year out in the snow, it was blue I believe.

This picture some how reminds me of it.

Wow, good memory Kar.

Yeah, in fact for the first time I made our Christmas cards this year and that was the front cover. The wife made me adjust the color so it was red instead of the bluish/purple.

[RDM]

Wow that thing is LIT UP. 40,000 LED's for 1$/day... Now imagine lighting up an entire house like that "Griswold" style. ;)

[Jim Victory]

Absolutely beautiful!

Love the sky in that first one. It would be good even without the lights in the tree.

[JohnT]

I like both images, but the tree in the second one is unreal. Any idea how much she paid for that?

[Wes]

I've got to wonder what it cost to put the lights on the tree in the first place.

Very beautiful shot, Joe. I see that you're putting that D3 to good use.

[hattrik21]

That's beautiful. Where abouts in FM is that, as I'd love to drive by it when the wife and I go out for our Christmas light drive.

[mmcmurr]

Originally Posted by hattrik21

That's beautiful. Where abouts in FM is that, as I'd love to drive by it when the wife and I go out for our Christmas light drive.

I'd definitely like to know too. I'd love to pop out there one night and take a couple of shots.

[Wil_Bloodworth]

Wow! That's really cool. Did she say how much it cost her to have those LEDs installed?

- Wil

[rozzie]

I'm also curious about where in FM this is...as I live in the town as well :) Gorgeous shots btw!

[Joe_Lorenzini]

On Shiloh between the 1171 (Cross Timbers) and the 407 (Justin Road). Believe me when I say you won't be able to miss it.

_/oe

[mmcmurr]

Originally Posted by Joe_Lorenzini

On Shiloh between the 1171 (Cross Timbers) and the 407 (Justin Road). Believe me when I say you won't be able to miss it.

_/oe

Ah yes! I know the area quite well. Used to ride my motorcycle through there on the weekends. Of course, now that my kiddo was born, I haven't gotten to ride that motorcycle in too long. I guess that's why I haven't been out on Shiloh road lately =) Well, except to eat a Christina's.