The Beauty of Natives
I am regularly asked by garden publishers why native plant gardens are a mess, and I must say, too often they are right – but [...]
I am regularly asked by garden publishers why native plant gardens are a mess, and I must say, too often they are right – but [...]
The Santa Barbara Botanical Garden is a mecca for California native plant enthusiasts, especially in April. I am thrilled to be asked to do a [...]
The Regional Parks Botanic Garden just may be my favorite garden. I may change my mind on the next garden I visit when spring comes, [...]
My friend Nora is helping me on The Summer-Dry Project, an effort to expand the photo database at summer-dry.com. We want to enlarge the efforts [...]
In this all consuming passion to make PhotoBotanic into a self-publishing site it is sometimes easy to forget the core business is licensing photos. And sometimes [...]
The latest post in the Learning Center is about backlight, and culminates with this new print. Lepechinia fragans is a California native plant, Fragrant Pitcher [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
It was spring. I knew my Ribes sanguineum was crying out to be photographed. A siren song really. She beckoned and seduced me away [...]
Native plant gardens are often hard to photograph. Many native gardeners care more about the plants and habitat than the aesthetics. This is perfectly OK [...]