An hour of California
light, and cypresses
Richard Nixon Presidential Library · Yorba Linda
Yorba Linda has an avenue of cypresses that would not embarrass Tuscany, a colonnade the length of a city block, and a rose garden that turns the colour of the dress at about six. We had an hour in it. Most of these photographs are from the last twenty minutes.
Tuscany, if
you did not
look twice
Yorba Linda · Orange County
A colonnade
a block
long
The Library’s gardens were built for people to walk slowly through, which is exactly what a portrait hour needs and almost never gets. There is a pergola of stone columns running the length of the rose garden, a reflecting pool at the end of it, and no gate to negotiate between one and the other.
That matters more than it sounds. An hour of portraits spent walking between locations is not an hour of portraits. Here nobody had to drive anywhere, and the light did the rest.
More in California
- Venue
- Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum, Yorba Linda
- Photography
- Husna Razi · Stefano Casati
- Photographs on this page
- Stefano Casati
Photographed as second shooter to Husna Razi. Every photograph on this page is my own.
Joyful first.
Classic second.
Torre a Cona, in the hills east of Florence.
Somewhere
like this?