Good Garden Photography

The PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses is finally published ! Coming from thirty years of garden photography and eight rose books, distilled here in 92 pages [...]

Winter in California’s summer-dry climate is very different from the rest of the country. It is a robust time in gardens as winter rains kick [...]

It’s 2017, time to clean up all those photo files, and reminisce on favorite photos of 2016. If you are a photographer, now is the time [...]

One of the pleasures of winter for a garden photographer is reviewing photo shoots from earlier in the year and being transported back in time. [...]

For interesting photos in bright light, don’t follow the Kodak advice that came with the early Brownie cameras: “The sun should be behind your back or [...]

Have you noticed that the days are getting longer ? Probably not, but a few days ago, on the shortest day of year exactly at the [...]

Whenever I wander the woods behind my house this time of year, I see flashes of red – Christmas Berry, or Toyon, Heteromeles arbutifolia, one of [...]

I have been thinking a lot about trees recently. My visit to Arnold Arboretum in October and a recent publisher’s request for American tree images [...]

Every autumn when my Camellia sasanqua shrubs begin to bloom I marvel at how well they do in California. Then, when the ginkgo trees turns [...]

It’s true, there is autumn foliage in San Francisco. Just go to Golden Gate Park and take a walk in the Botanical Garden. The color [...]