Seeing Shapes in Succulents
Succulents are one of the most photogenic of plants groups. The leaves are bold and graphic, arranged in geometric patterns, creating strong shapes. Gardens with [...]
Harvard’s Glass Flowers
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 [...]
Framing a Framed View
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 [...]
Plants Are Not Art
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 [...]
Flowering Oak – Moment in Time
When the Oaks were at the peak of flowering last month in the Rush Creek Open Space across the street, I could see the red [...]
Redouté Revisité
In the 1990s I was asked by an art director in New York to come up with a style to illustrate roses for a series of [...]
Advanced Techniques for Photographing Roses
3 Roses as Photobotanic Illustrations - 'Belle of Portugal' 'Mme Isaac Pereire'; 'Apple Blossom' Let's go beyond the basics of photographing roses. In the [...]
Rain Drops Make an Art Print
I love these rainy days. Colors are rich, the light is soft, and raindrops glisten. University of California Berkeley Botanical Garden – a wet [...]
Favorites from 2015
I spent way too long trying to winnow my favorite photos of 2015 to 20. These 20, posted in a gallery in the Archive, now [...]
Tupelo Transformed
Like no other plant in my garden, the Tupelo tree (Nyssa sylvatica) captures my eye for abstract expressionism. In autumn its leaves turn wonderfully orange [...]