Summer has now slipped into September, and the Madrone bark cracks. Like sinews along the branch, the bark peels back revealing a fresh new skin, vaguely green and ready for winter growth. The old skin exfoliates almost suddenly, brought on by heat in a seasonal pattern nature repeats every summer. A sure sign that, here[...]
I got this e-mail from Margaretta Mitchell, photographer extaordinaire, who need an ID for a book she is completing and the homeowner could not remember the flower. She had consulted books and websites and everything suggested a Scaevola but Scaevola are all blue except for a few new white cultivars What rare new thing was[...]
Sometimes we look at our garden successes and wonder how to photograph it. What is the essence? What makes it work? I walked down my driveway this morning where I have a mixed shrub border and once again fell in love with Ceanothus ‘Marie-Simon’. While I like this straight on photo, composed to evoke the[...]
I am oblivious to the season when I edit my photos. Often it takes me months to do the computer work and to do the fine tuning each photo requires. I confess I bring out in the photos that which I want to remember, perhaps not the way it really was; but as a gardener,[...]
It is almost July and I am only now editing my April shoot from the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Editing in the digital world is, hands down, the hardest thing about my work these days. I often shoot hundreds of photos on a shoot and spend at least two days editing for every one shooting.[...]