Toyon Extraction
I have added another California native shrub to the extraction series, Toyon - Heteromeles arbutifolia. Extractions are photobotanic illustrations that are inspired by classic botanic illustrations [...]
Workshop – Plant Vignettes
Every garden story needs details and vignettes, especially plant portraits - but the portraits needn't be mug shots. The plants should be "of the garden" and give [...]
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, [...]
Making Hard Light Work
There was a time when I would never shoot in harsh, hard light. Bright, strong, contrasty light tends to have deep, black shadows and no [...]
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 [...]
Underground in New Mexico
The Gopher Holes - Saxon in Wonderland The Rio Grande Botanic Garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico has a most clever Children's Garden. Short of [...]
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 [...]
Camellia ‘Tulip Time’
I am finding great satisfaction exploring these botanic illustrations, that I call PhotoBotanic illustrations. Not only do my eyes see these two dimensional views more [...]
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 [...]