Go Find Beauty
Once upon a time, before the COVID virus kept us sheltering in the place, we might have spent an April day visiting gardens or traveling [...]
Syngenta Flowers Photo Shoot
Professional flower photographer shares some tips from photo shoot
Orchids – Conservatory of Flowers
The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers always has something in bloom. There is one entire exhibit room full of delights, the Potted Plants Gallery, that [...]
Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve
It’s a great year for California wildflowers and I finally was able to photograph Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve. California poppies Eschscholzia californica flowering in [...]
Iris Uncluttered
Quite often when we want to take a picture of a beautiful flower other blossoms in the background clutter up the view. Our eyes are [...]
Camellia Time – San Francisco Botanical Garden
Winter is Camellia time at San Francisco Botanical Garden. Camellia reticulata 'Dolores Hope' in San Francisco Botanical Garden The garden is renowned for [...]
Magnolia Time
It is the middle of winter, so it must be time for the Magnolias to be flowering in San Francisco Botanical Garden. Magnolia sargentiana, [...]
Photographing a Lily
An Orienpet Lily in full bloom is a wonder of nature, and will make a flower photographer out of anyone with a camera of any [...]
Poppy Perspective
I am delighted to have another Better Photos with Any Camera workshop at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, a wonderland dedicated to California native plants. Wildflower [...]
Magnolia, Pruned
Every winter, I seem to wait on pruning my trees until winter is almost over. And now the Magnolia has started to bloom. Magnolia [...]