Once again The Ecological Farming Conference has got my juices going. These provocative, feisty, and independently minded farmer and ag activists have once more pushed me to a better understanding of sustainable agriculture.
Farming Gone Wild
Saxon Holt
Sustainable ? Aesthetic ?
“The Hermit’s Garden” Sustainable ? Aesthetic? “I have a nearly impossible job. I am a garden photographer…. “ So begins my article in the current Pacific Horticulture “Finding a Sustainable Aesthetic …”; and so begins my lecture circuit this year with the subtitle – “… What is ‘Good’ Garden Photography” as I promote my book [...]
Bare Trees
Winter’s stark beauty. Color vanishes from the landscape. Bare trees dominate the garden. On cloudy overcast days, the somber gray sky can become a clean white background, perfect for silhouettes with just a little bit of camera manipulation. You can override your camera meter’s calibration which is designed to read each scene as a[...]
Red and Green at Christmas
I was photographing Quarryhill Botanical Garden for a magazine story last month and stumbled across these huge gorgeous red berries of Cornus kousa. Why did I immediately think of Christmas?
Frost in the Garden
For those of you in real winter climates, please humor this Californian who went photo crazy in the garden the other morning when it got all the way down to 24. Some of you only wish it might get up to 24. If crunching across the frozen grass is no rare sensory treat that gets[...]