Peonies to Photograph at New York Botanical Garden

Huge, gorgeous tree peonies are in bloom at New York Botanical Garden nybg.org now! The bushes with these pink, white, and purple beauties are next to the grove of lilac trees, also in bloom--and gloriously fragrant. Also glorious to photograph!

MOMA Exhibit on Cartier-Bresson a Must!

I highly recommend the MOMA exhibit on Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004). His ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”—the title of his first major book. In the 1940s he joined Robert Capa and others in founding the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life. For more than twenty-five years, he was a skilled observer of the global theater of human affairs and one of the great portraitists of the twentieth century. MoMA’s retrospective, the first in the United States in three decades, surveys Cartier-Bresson’s entire career with about three hundred photographs.

“Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century” runs from April 11 through June 28 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. It travels to the Art Institute of Chicago (July 24 to Oct. 3); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Oct. 30 to Jan. 30); and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (Feb. 19 to May 15).

AIPAD New York Show Inspirational to this Photographer!

The AIPAD (Association of International Photography Art Dealers) Photography Show in New York is inspirational, as always! More than 70 galleries are exhibiting a wide range of museum-quality work. If you are especially interested in nature photography, as I am, then you might be pleased by some of the images shown by the Alan Klotz Gallery and Nailya Alexander Gallery, both in New York, as well as the Peter Fetterman Gallery of Santa Monica, California.

These are just a very few highlights from an exceptional show! If you are in the New York area this weekend, try to get to this show to see for yourself!
(AIPAD Photography Show, Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street, March 18-21)

Orchids to Enjoy and Photograph

ORCHID SHOW! Cuba is in bloom inside the conservatory at New York Botanical Garden nybg.org. The Orchid Show: Cuba in Flower exhibit features thousands of orchids set among replicas of some of Cuba’s buildings and statues; it also features palm groves in a space modeled after one of that country’s treasured botanical gardens. So enjoyable--especially in the middle of winter!

If you want to photograph the orchids, you need to know that tripods are not allowed in the conservatory, so use an image-stabilized lens if possible. Cameras can be used only in designated parts of the conservatory. If you have a macro lens, think about taking some intimate shots of these amazing flowers--like the one I'm showing here, which I've titled Mango Flurry. See more images on my website www.PatriciaGarbariniPhotography.com.

New York Botanical Garden, Bronx River Pkwy at Fordham Rd, Bronx (718-817-8700, visit nybg.org for hours). Feb 27–Apr 11.

Photographers Helping Haiti--Success!

Good news! I'm happy to report that the ASMP photographers from New York City, myself included, who donated prints to be sold for $100 each at The VERGE ART FAIR on March 4-7 to benefit Doctors Without Borders in Haiti succeeded in raising $4,000!

Photographers Helping Haiti at Verge Art Fair

A select group of ASMP photographers from New York City, myself included, have donated prints to be sold for $100 each at The VERGE ART FAIR to benefit Doctors Without Borders in relief efforts in Haiti. Prints curated by Elizabeth Avedon. I have donated three prints from my Montage portfolio, which can be seen on my website www.PatriciaGarbariniPhotography.com.
Dates: Friday & Saturday, March 5-6 from 12-8 pm, Sunday, March 7 from 12-6 pm The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41, NYC.
Tickets $10. Opening Night Preview Reception $20 March 4, 6-10 pm.