Oaks Inspire Art
Yesterday I stood under this tree looking for a pattern in the gold leaves and dark branches. I must have spent an hour looking up [...]
Finding Persimmoms
I think persimmons are the perfect fall fruit for California gardens. They are tough, disease free, delicious, and have reliably good fall foliage color. The [...]
Today’s Tip – Brushstrokes of Color
As a garden photographer my eyes perk up with any kind of change, and in autumn the transitional stages of leaves changing from green to the [...]
Prints of Sherry’s Garden
I was delighted to hear from my friend, garden designer Sherry Merciari, who wanted to order prints of some experimental, abstracted photos I created of [...]
Trees Unfolding
Pignut hickory (Carya glabra) native tree in spring leaf flush, Longwood Garden, the Meadow Garden. I stood beneath the Pignut Hickory tree (Carya glabra) [...]
Overexposed Ribes
On my way to work this morning, during that 20 step slog between the house and my studio, I stopped to admire the Ribes sanguineum, [...]
Gingko Branch with Camellia
It is such a relief, a release really, when I can stop my crazy schedule and create something new. Too much of what I seem [...]
Backlight Magic
Garden photographers don’t get much done when the light is strong. We like soft light, very early or late in the day. We delight in [...]
Arctostaphylos manzanita ‘Monica’ Extraction
So, so many reasons to celebrate this manzanita on this rainy day. Mostly the rain itself. We have had so little this winter that every [...]
Rosa ‘Apple Blossom’
It took four months to grow this picture; a single second in the garden to "see" it; and 8 hours of computer work to clean [...]