Garden photographers just love focal points designed into gardens. In great gardens though, they present dilemmas. What is the best angle ? Let’s take a stroll around one of the rooms in Gary Ratway’s own garden:
When the new California Academy of Sciences re-opened last year in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the green roof was a big story with its central design concept-“lifting up a piece of the park and put a building under it”. I was eager to photograph it but could not get permission to walk out on[...]
Sustainability. I suppose like me, many of us wonder what this word has come to mean. In the words of R.E. Faro official blogger for The Late Show Gardens (TLSG), the word : “drifts perilously close to lapsing into the orbit of junk words, satellites reflecting a bit of light but with not enough charge[...]
Well, I have returned to active duty here at GGW after a rare and most pleasant summer vacation. I went to New York City with only my point and shoot camera, not expecting any gardens – but I guess my eye can’t help but find flower subjects.
I was recently invited by The Garden Conservancy to tour the Alcatraz garden project. The Conservancy, in partnership with The Golden Gate National Park Conservancy, has spent the past 5 years restoring and replanting the barren and windswept old prison in the middle of San Francisco Bay.