While writing on the botanical features of Julia Margaret Cameron portraits (blog post on this coming soon!), I came across Oscar Gustave Rejlander’s photograph of her at the piano (shown above) for the first time. During an image search to find out more background information Read more

In 1903, the French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrated how layers of potato starch dyed orange-red, green and violet over a glass plate and coated with silver bromide can produce a full-color photograph, a process that became known as autochrome. Though the invention of color Read more

My deep-rooted passion for gardening took hold of me approximately three years ago. I had just completed Monty Don’s series, Big Dreams Small Spaces, and purchased my first houseplant for my 592 square foot apartment. At an early age, I understood the aesthetic quality of Read more

“The modern artist feels even the direct charm of the beautiful old stories with wistful desire for a like effortless simplicity of expression, flowing so clearly and steadily from sensation. And how delightful the contents of those tales considered as imagery of what is inmost Read more