Summer-Dry
Sustainability is a core value to the garden we feature. In summer-dry gardens, those regions around the world with Mediterranean type climates of dry summers and wet winters, well chosen plants are sustained with little effort. Since we are a California company in a summer-dry region we especially want to encourage gardeners to use these plants and garden photographers to celebrate a distinctive aesthetic.
October 26, 2015
We haven’t had as much fog as usual this year. The ocean is warmer and the fog does not form as readily, so when I saw [...]
October 19, 2015
Your job, should you accept it is to find catalog quality roses in this field of 750,000 roses. My client smiled. So began my photo [...]
October 17, 2015
I love the creative energy at an art school. I was recently a guest lecturer at California College of the Arts and walked the campus with students [...]
October 13, 2015
My friend Nora called today wondering why all the jewelry photos she took in the soft early morning light were so blue. She knew my favorite time to [...]
October 10, 2015
Sometimes when I photograph a garden, wanting to show a useful plant in a clever setting, I want it to be an illustration more than a [...]
October 7, 2015
Last week I participated at the Succulent Extravaganza at Succulent Gardens in Castroville, CA and created a show poster for the event. However, I printed more [...]
October 5, 2015
Sometimes all it takes is a wee bit of cropping to fill the frame and have a full composition. In all my ‘fill the frame’ [...]
September 30, 2015
I was downright stunned at the recent Garden Writers Association (GWA) conference when my ebook Good Garden Photography received the Gold Award for Best Overall [...]
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September 28, 2015
I just returned from the Succulent Extravaganza at Succulent Gardens, and as usual was wowed by the variety of colors and textures that succulents provide. Succulents [...]
September 23, 2015
Good light can be a funny thing and photographers are always looking for it. Sometimes you have to make it for yourself.
