"HARMONY"

"Harmony"  is a diptych consisting of two photographs printed on aluminum and designed to be hung side by side. 

These images of the outside natural world bring  a sense of peacefulness and beauty inside to the places where we live.  Click on HARMONY to learn more.

                     Blazing TulipsClick BLAZING TULIPS to purchase

When you give a gift of art to those you care about, every time they see it they will remember that you cared. Click Blazing Tulips to order in time for Mother's Day.

This amazing desert flower always demands attention – even though its remarkable bloom fully opens and lasts for just one night.   It is an adventure to capture and preserve the beauty of these glorious blooms in photographs.

Click on my Saatchi Art gallery to see my series of Cereus photographs.  Seriously!
 

But there is nothing quite like the pleasure of receiving a handwritten note. 

                       Introducing the first "Art Of The Note" Cards

                               The Rainbow Gum Collection 

                          The Rainbow Gum Collection  

                         The Night-Blooming Cereus Collection                               

                         Cereus Collection  

                                        The Sepia Collection 

                          Sepia Collection

Each note card has one of my photographs mounted on the front.  The photographs are printed using archival inks on fine art photographic paper.

When you send one of these notes you not only send your personal message, you are also sending a small gift of art that can be framed and kept in view to enjoy time and again.

When you give a gift of art to those you care about, every time they see it they will remember that you cared.    Click Note Cards to see all the images and details about this brand new series of Art of the Note cards.

Night BloomClick Night Bloom To Order

 I am so honored to have had my photograph “Night Bloom” on display and judged Best in Show in the company of a remarkable collection of photographic art.    

An enthusiastic crowd was at Port St Lucie Civic Center (Port St. Lucie Florida) for the opening night reception of  “From The Heart” Juried Photography Exhibition 2018. 

The exhibition is presented by the Treasure Coast Photography Center in support of Safe Space whose mission is to provide victims of domestic violence safety, support and education empowering them to create independent lives free from violence. 

       "All Aglow"                 "Red Lantern"                     "Star-Bright"                     "Radiance"  

This set of four fine art photographs will add  bright notes to your home in any season.  They will also make very special gifts to family, friends and business associates.    

When you buy a piece of art it will pay you back every time you stop to look at and enjoy it.  When you give a gift of art to those you care about, every time they see it they will remember that you cared.  

Click Contact to order or with any questions you have about these photographs

One of the most wonderful things about these trees is the way they insist upon being noticed -- you can spot their brilliant color from far away and it's hard to resist those come-hither calls.  I've been drawn down many a by-way in Florida to photograph the incomparable beauty of our Royal Poincianas.

Forever In BloomClick Forever In Bloom to purchase

When you give a gift of art to those you care about, every time they see it they will be reminded of you.

For Details, and to order click here: Forever In Bloom

Click on Secret Gardens and Note Cards to see unique gifts of art.

Click on Galleries to find more inspiration.

The exciting juried exhibition at the Elliott Museum in Stuart Florida showcases works by 40 artists who have looked at the many faces of  Wild Florida:  wildlife, wild places, wild people.

 It's always a pleasure to talk with visitors, and the opening night was an opportunity to meet up with people who have a special appreciation for art and the wild things -- including artists -- in our midst.   

The current exhibition is on until January 28, 2017 at The Elliott Museum, 825 NE Ocean Blvd, Stuart, Florida (open Daily 10am-5pm).  Stop in and take a walk on the wild side!

Click on  Secret Gardens and Note Cards to see unique gifts of art   

Click on Galleries to find more inspiration! 

My video, Secret Garden Treasures, is a close-up look at botanical and landscape gems in eight unique gardens on Florida's Treasure Coast.  Each garden presents surprises to relish: beds of specimen begonias, collections of jewel-like orchids, ceramic creations reflecting the flowers and foliage in which they are set, garden "rooms" to stop in for awhile amid bromeliads, palms and the occasional inanimate creature.                   

Whether they are expansive gardens along a river, small peaceful places in which to rest and reflect, tropical wonderlands filled with dozens of palms and bamboos, each one invites you to take a close look and be charmed by its treasures.

This stunning high definition video takes you into unique gardens where landscapes capture the boundless beauty of nature. You'll want to watch it again and again!

"A work of art that captures nature and elevates each plant to a small majesty.  There is a kind of magic in the way one image seamlessly morphs into another.  I'll watch it again and again, each time seeing plants as I never did before."  Sharon Brossman, Master Gardener & Proud Keeper of a Former -- and always changing -- 'Secret Garden'

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Since posting the piece about "Gardenography" in June I've heard from many people asking if prints were available.  I'm delighted that so many of you enjoyed seeing it.   A special Limited Edition is now available.  

If you would like one for your own collection, or for a gift to someone who also loves the beauty found in gardens, click on My Gallery Store to order.  

  ... brilliantly colored flowers, fruit trees -- name it and it will show up in a garden. 

As a "Gardenographer" I tell the story of a garden's life in its details: an orchid plant set high on a tree branch and thriving ... 

   or a piece of sculpture surrounded by foliage that has become part of the art.

​So what exactly is Gardenography?  It is a photographic biography that captures the unique elements of a garden's life story and preserves them long after the leaves and flowers have faded.

Use this link to my "Gardenography" page on Houzz to see more.  Contact me if you would like to learn more about having your garden photographed.  I would be delighted to talk with you!

"Spring Bouquet" is a folio of my photographs celebrating the floral bounty of the season.

This 'bouquet' includes eight photographs printed on fine art photographic papers with archival pigment inks to ensure that richness and fidelity of color are retained over time. The prints can be framed and hung individually or in groupings, or they can be kept  in the folio and revisited and enjoyed again and again.

Best of all, this Spring Bouquet will never fade -- it will remain fresh forever.

Click My Gallery Store to order "Spring Bouquet"

      Click Contact to order or with any questions you have about this special edition folio.

As I made my way around the exhibit and watched them working, teaching others their special techniques, explaining the symbols carved into different pieces, something else was evident: these artists truly relish the process of making magic out of wood, and their joy in sharing it is clearly on display.

LIGHT OF DAY

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Use this link - Florida Designer Homes Magazine - to see the complete article and the entire issue.

Back in the studio reviewing the images I marveled, as I always do, at how nature’s extraordinary art is revealed when you peer in for a really close look. 

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."  Henry David Thoreau


This is how it began:

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July 19, 2014

And here is what happened as Nature staged a brilliant opening night show

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                                                                      July 25   10:12PM     

 Use the highlighted link to see more photographs of the Night-Blooming Cereus and use this link Desert Beauty to see a short video of last year's opening night.

                       Wild Parrots # 1Click Wild Parrots #1 To Purchase

                                    Parrot Tulips #3Click Parrot Tulips #3 To Purchase

My Night-Blooming Cereus plant has been a source of amazement as it produced one bloom its first summer and two its second. It has been looking pale and rather sad since we moved it to our new house. But it has obviously forgiven us and hit the re-start button: this week four juicy buds appeared at the edges of its leaves and they are growing at an unbelievable rate.  Stay tuned for opening night!

Early morning can be a magical time in the garden -- especially after a rain.    This morning the flowers on the Hong Kong Orchid tree were so vibrant in spite of the fact that its leaves are starting to brown and the blooms are starting to wilt a bit around the edges.  

Contrasts are intense in that early light as well.  Here were these two small flowers seemingly woven together -- one with petals covered with droplets and the other nearly bare of them.  It's hard to explain that phenomenon but it's impossible not to celebrate the Yin & Yang of it! 

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."  

                                                Chinese Proverb


           See more of my lily photographs here: Lilies

Roses are a little scarce in the garden lately, but then there are these beauties reminding us to listen to our hearts.  

 Be sure to click All Images to see more of my floral photographs.  

Click here: All Images to see how many ways nature captivates us with extraordinary flowers and trees.

Nature displayed an 'art nouveau' creation  in the graceful foliage and subtle color palette of this lily plant. How lucky we are to have such pieces of art in the natural world around us.

I was at my local big-box store this week to pick up some light bulbs.  Now, standing in front of the light bulb shelves is without question a mind-numbing experience.   But there are rewards for slogging through those mundane chores:  in this case it involved a walk along the plant aisles before checking out.    And there it was -- a Bat Plant -- like nothing I have seen before.  Couldn’t resist, so I took it home and spent the afternoon photographing this beguiling natural beauty.  Turns out shopping for light bulbs isn’t that bad after all!

      Click here: Daisies to see more of my daisy photographs.

                        Click here: Orchids to see more of my Orchid photographs 

All too often when I set out to photograph a particular flower – haul the gear, reach the chosen location, mount the camera, wait for the perfect light – the wind kicks up, and no matter how long I try to wait it out I finally wrap it up and call it a day. But on this day I thought: hadn’t I nearly given up at times when I was losing the light and as it changed, the reds and purples suddenly “popped” and were more vibrant in the dusk?  I thought, too, about waiting out a sudden rain shower and then seeing the leaves and petals washed clean and more beautiful for the drops of rain on them.  So on this day, when the wind persisted, I decided to continue in spite of the conditions. How glad I am for the reminder to keep on keeping on … and grateful to the wind for showing me that daisies can dance!

 If you check them each day you’ll find the buds nearly doubling in size, their stems growing by inches, so fast…like puppies and children. 

                         Then, all at once, it's opening night. 

The flower unfolds from bud to full bloom within an hour -- its beauty and complexity are astonishing.

This flower lives for just one night and is gone by sun-up.    But what a spectacular show it presents. 

   For more images of this remarkable flower

click here: Night-Blooming Cereus 

I came upon this scene at Pinder's Nursery in Palm City, Florida. The grounds there contain an amazing variety of flowers and trees, many set amidst unusual pieces of garden art.    I love to walk the paths at the nursery. The pairings of garden art and flowers are truly inspiring.                                                                                                                                

"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun. I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one."                                                                                     

                                                                                        Edna St. Vincent Millay                                      

My photograph, "Lily By Moonlight," is one of those being given to a new hospital in Bergamo, Italy by The Foundation for Photo/Art in Hospitals.   The mission of the Foundation is, in its own words, "to place large, framed photographs of nature and beautiful places from around the world in hospitals to give comfort and hope to patients and their families, visitors and caregivers....The photographs are intended to provide color and an atmosphere of compassion where healing is encouraged."  

I am so happy to join artists from around the world and participate as  a Contributing Photographer to The Foundation. Use this link to  to see more about  The Foundation for Photo/Art in Hospitals.

                                                               Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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The Royal Poincianas are making their presence known now in Florida.  They're the show-offs of the tree world so they are easy to spot. Even from far away you can see them reaching above rooflines as you ride along the road.

If you have a chance to get close to one, step under its graceful broad canopy to see clusters of these exquisite flowers amid lacy fern-like foliage.  

I was at McKee Botanical Gardens in Vero Beach, Florida recently where the lotuses were starting to bloom. I have been really keen to photograph them.  One beauty captivated me but it was just too far into the middle of the pond for me to see the inner parts. It was also, of course, swaying in the wind.  It had my full attention and I kept working at it.   But then I heard a quacking noise coming from the edge of the pond. There sat two ducks, perfectly still, not a feather ruffled by the wind, recommending that I shift my focus. So I accepted their invitation, thinking that when opportunity quacks it is probably a good idea to open the door.    

Nature always serves up surprises, and here is one that simply stopped me in my tracks. In a small and quite old residential neighborhood in Stuart Florida, I came upon trees full of these extraordinary blooms. It is a pseudobombax ellipticum, and its common name is shaving brush tree. Who could ever have imagined that such flowers, with delicate silken threads and blazing color, would emerge from the dark, woody buds on this tree?