As the sun approaches its lowest arc of the year I start to bend the rules of not taking pictures in bright light. Back light [...]
Quite often when we want to take a picture of a beautiful flower other blossoms in the background clutter up the view. Our eyes are [...]
Sunnylands is a conference Center and gardens near Palm Springs, California. Sunnylands garden; lawn ringed with Cercidium or Parkinsonia ‘Desert Museum’ Palo Verde trees [...]
No, this is not a gardening tip on how to prune trees, it is about careful cropping of a photograph. Spring flowering ‘Liset’ crabapple [...]
I often think of a photo composition as a combination of shapes linked together, like jigsaw puzzle pieces within the rectangle of the camera view [...]
Winter is Camellia time at San Francisco Botanical Garden. Camellia reticulata 'Dolores Hope' in San Francisco Botanical Garden The garden is renowned for [...]
It is the middle of winter, so it must be time for the Magnolias to be flowering in San Francisco Botanical Garden. Magnolia sargentiana, [...]
On winter mornings after rain, fog oozes from the earth. The cool air cannot hold all the moisture the ground wants to release, so it [...]
I don’t know how many Salvias there are, but I am always finding new ones. Salvia wagneriana, winter flowering sage in San Francisco Botanical [...]
Have you ever taken a picture of a trees where it looks like they are falling backwards and leaning in ? Sequoia sempervirens, Coast [...]