Water Droplets II Canvas Print

The Brookside Gardens are (50 acres (20 ha)) of public gardens located within Wheaton Regional Park, at 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland.

“ The garden grounds were originally part of a landscaping and garden center on a small farm owned by Stadler Nurseries.[2]

Brookside Gardens opened to the public on July 13, 1969, with a conservatory and 25 acres developed as gardens. The landscaping and conservatory were designed by Hans Hanses and Carl Schoening, respectively. More gardens have been added and refined to showcase local species over the current 54 acres.”

My focus has always been on the natural world and its beauty whether it be a dragonfly, flower, frog, or tree bark. When viewing our world, I look at how people and architectural structures fit into it now and in the past. Do they coexist with their natural surroundings or look out of place? To that end, what compels me to take photos is, not only our natural world, but the history we created within it, thus combining my two loves of nature and history. It is my intention that my photographs of landscapes and architecture, as well as close ups of nature and historical artifacts, give us a sense of the world around us. As a photographer and naturalist, I continually search for the obscure, as well as the obvious, as I believe without...