ROBERT WALTER PHOTOGRAPHY
Deep Into the Huntington Gardens
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For months, I’ve journeyed a considerable distance and yet not so many miles. The shorter trip is my almost daily drive to photograph the botanical gardens at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. My goal and more sizable journey has been to capture the flow and ebb of the more than 15,000 plant varieties that fill the 120 acres open to the public.
Quite simply, the Huntington has become my muse as I have walked around the Lily Ponds, Desert Garden, Japanese Garden, Chinese Garden, Rose Garden, Australian, Subtropical, Shakespeare, Jungle, Palm and Children’s Gardens, looking for the shapes and colors that are the underlying DNA and heartbeat of this place. Galleries that sold my work have called it abstract nature imagery and while that’s still true in many cases, in this collection I’m including images that touch the sweep and scope of the gardens to provide a setting for the more intimate and sometimes not quite so readily recognizable patterns deeply embedded in the fabric of the Huntington. |
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