Blocking Shapes in a Photograph
I often think of a photo composition as a combination of shapes linked together, like jigsaw puzzle pieces within the rectangle of the camera view [...]
I often think of a photo composition as a combination of shapes linked together, like jigsaw puzzle pieces within the rectangle of the camera view [...]
Winter is Camellia time at San Francisco Botanical Garden. Camellia reticulata 'Dolores Hope' in San Francisco Botanical Garden The garden is renowned for [...]
It is great to hang out with activists. My friend Judy Adler has almost single handedly created a new California initiative, Proposition 72 on the [...]
It is the middle of winter, so it must be time for the Magnolias to be flowering in San Francisco Botanical Garden. Magnolia sargentiana, [...]
I have been visiting Leaning Pine Arboretum for years, and it has become one of my favorite gardens. For a California garden photographer, seeking landscape [...]
On winter mornings after rain, fog oozes from the earth. The cool air cannot hold all the moisture the ground wants to release, so it [...]
I don’t know how many Salvias there are, but I am always finding new ones. Salvia wagneriana, winter flowering sage in San Francisco Botanical [...]
Have you ever taken a picture of a trees where it looks like they are falling backwards and leaning in ? Sequoia sempervirens, Coast [...]
Greetings, and a Happy New Year ! Saxon Holt and dog Kona at Deer Island Preserve January 2017 photo by Mary Holt Putting [...]
The California landscape has always been shaped by fire. Blackened hills, burned trees and new green grass; Fire damage and recovery from Nuns fire [...]