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It’s true, there is autumn foliage in San Francisco. Just go to Golden Gate Park and take a walk in the Botanical Garden. Panorama [...]
A mature tree is an awesome thing, clasped to the earth, connected to the sky, drinking in light, breathing out oxygen, sheltering the land, nurturing [...]
The famed Glass Flowers are part of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, a truly fantastic museum in Boston and is fully named The Ware Collection of Blaschka [...]
Native plant gardens tend to be hard to photograph. Often the gardeners care more about the plants and habitat than the aesthetics. This is perfectly [...]
I found an old friend in Sacramento’s Old City Cemetery this spring. I visited the cemetery to help the local Rose Society preserve the historic rose collection found [...]
This will be an homage to the Oaks of California. I love ’em. Spring trees at sunset, Valley Oak, Quercus lobata in the California [...]
If you have a chance, plan your photography for early morning when the wind is quiet, flowers are fresh, and the light is sweet. Try to [...]
Light is certainly critical in all photography. For garden photography the magic hours tend to be the two first hours and the two last hours [...]
Plants are not art. So began a provocative Facebook post by Benjamin Vogt this past June 17. I did not have time to jump into [...]
Whenever I am on a commercial flower shoot I use a gray card to help me render the flower color correctly. It is a very [...]