I love the morning light when photographing gardens. Gardens are fresh, the air clean, and the light is sweet. It is nearly impossible to work in the hot sunny light when the brightest colors take on a contrasted, metallic look and the shady areas become black holes. In California where there is little humidity in the[...]
When the international flower industry gets together in California to show off what’s new, I’m there. The gardener in me revolts. The Gardening Gone Wild side chokes. In any practical realm, this does not compute. How does this massive display apply to any reality in the gardening world? Ahh, but the whole thing provokes. Acres[...]
It’s Spring ! At least here in California. Since many friends across the country are still thawing out, how about we go looking for a photo in my garden? My pink dogwood tree, Cornus florida ‘Cherokee Chief’, is putting on quite a show. ‘Finding the Photo’ is a classic lesson from my Workshop series. I[...]
As the official photographer for the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show this year, I had access to a lift so that I could shoot down on the gardens. I was up with these dragons overlooking the amazing landscapes. I was also a judge for the Garden Conservancy so I had early access as the[...]
The current show of Georgia O’Keeffe’s work, Modern Nature, at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum reveals the the gardener observing nature. The works in the exhibition are all from a period of her life when she painted at the vacation resort town of Lake George, New York, before moving to the Southwest where she spent most[...]