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A visit to Longwood Garden in Kennett Square Pennsylvania in late summer created a perfect photo opportunity. This private garden, is very large with several conservatories, trails and large open outdoor spaces. My garden collection features photos from their different gardens. The gardens are located in the Brandywine Valley of Pennsylvania, a historic area where a Revolutionary War battle was fought. Wineries and retail shops dot the landscape now alongside the garden and historical sites. This photo is an artistic rendering creating a painterly effect.

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...