It is hard for me to resist flowers. I tell myself I garden for foliage and texture, for habitat and native plants, but when presented with flowers I am a glutton. I can not resist the abundant profusion of the California Spring Trials where flowers are on show by the millions. I go to the [...]
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Usually I forget that my left eye is blurred. In moments of despair it think it is useless. Occasionally I will try to analyze what it sees. On this day, an early spring day that pulled me away from my office, a day that I simply needed to see if I could see photos, I [...]
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What the heck is holt_361_1400sq_aj_op_ca_smfybr_ltef_upres_noisemedian7 ?! Such cryptic code for such a fine rendering of this Chilean Wine Palm. The string of code is actually my file number of the final state. As I move from one state of the image to the next, as I apply different effects and filters I save various stages [...]
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I am overwhelmed with the possibilities. It begins in the garden, any good garden where I may be blessed to work. Here, Sherry Merciari’s complex Hortisexual garden. (Hortisexuals being the band of horticulturally obsessed who use their garden as a way to contain their plant lust.) But any good garden offers a photographer many possibilities. [...]
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Some days, simply venturing out with the camera is truly a tonic. With full intent to go capture something, I escape the office, get out of doors needing, indeed craving for photos to wash over me, allow me to click a shutter, to respond and create. On this stormy day I put on a rain [...]
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I have missed two entire months. For the record, I fell off a ladder onto my studio floor on Aug. 30. Six broken ribs, separated shoulder, fractured skull, and concussion. Life can change in an instant. Much recovered by now except a residual paralyzed facial nerve that keeps my left eye from blinking. It is [...]
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As I get closer to launching a redesign of my PhotoBotanic website, I’ve started playing with tulip photos. I have long used a tulip as my logo, even in the website toolbar, and am wondering if I need a new one. These ‘Niigata’ tulips (red) with the dark purple ‘Havran’ are floating on a sea [...]
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These leaves were photographed last autumn when I visited my cousin in Vermont. I drove all across the state looking for fall color and found this scene by a pond behind her property in rural Proctorsville. Something to be learned about not driving around hoping to see, but staying still and opening your eyes. Some [...]
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It took 4 months to grow this picture; one second in the garden to “see” it; and 8 hours of computer work to clean it up. The one second part is easy to explain. Last Saturday was a garden day and when I walked the garden wondering where to start, what undone chore would be [...]
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