I photographed this amazing garden in Portland, OR back in 2009. It was the private garden of landscape designer Lauren Hall-Behrens of Lillyvilla. Gardens are usually best shot on cloudy days. But since I had to shoot this in early August, I had to get up way before the crack of dawn and shoot as much as I could before the sun got too overhead. Direct hot sun in a garden photo shoot creates lots of ugly shadows and distracts from the natural beauty of the plantings.
Photo by Lincoln Barbour - www.lincolnbarbour.com