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 [...]
While most of the country has been suffering under a brutally cold winter, we in California have been waiting for winter rains. It has been brutally dry. We have not had a soaking rain for 13 months. So you gardeners can imagine the joy of our recent rains. I spent each day this past weekend [...]
I was all set yesterday morning to begin my post on drought-tolerant plants, seeing as how we in California are in the midst of a really dry winter. Then at breakfast, my wife brought me a single Camellia from the garden, set in a clever stone vase. It was such a lovely reminder that even [...]
What is work in the garden ? For a garden photographer in his own garden, work shifts as the garden speaks. There are times when the garden cries out for care, and the work is sweaty, grimy, intensely physical. Then there are times when the garden sings and the work is quiet, aesthetically sensual, even [...]