Good Garden Photography

Almost every day I take a morning walk with my dog, Kona in the Oak woodland’s around my house.  My back yard is Cherry Hill, [...]

Over the years I have learned to see classic rectangles when I photograph a garden, rectangles in a 2 to 3 proportion.  This is the traditional “full [...]

I have been photographing roses in this wonderful private garden in Napa for the past six years. I have more than a thousand photos that I [...]

I had a play day today at Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma. But the light was bright and sunny, and even though I was only there [...]

“If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.” – Jay Maisel “Sometimes [...]

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 [...]

In California we don’t see the Golden Larch tree (Pseudolarix amabilis), a deciduous conifer with beautiful needles native to the moist mountains of China. It [...]

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 [...]

On a recent visit to the Arnold Arboretum in Boston I found students at Harvard’s Masters of Landscape Architecture program using a framing tool, somewhat [...]

I came across an explosion of light during an early-morning photo shoot at San Francisco Botanical Garden. I love arriving at a garden before dawn [...]