The post reviews our "Glorious Winter" exhibit at USBG

Stripped Bare, Winter Scenes Reveal the Artistry of Nature

By Adrian Higgins
Thursday, January 3, 2008
The gardener ponders winter's paradox: The sun's rays now grow stronger and the days grow longer, but the worst of the season's weather is yet to come.
There is another odd reality to consider, that the garden is not dead and perhaps not even dormant in its capacity to yield scenes of gripping beauty.
Snow-dusted conifers provide the Currier & Ives moment, but for Roger Foley, a landscape photographer from Arlington, and for many other keen observers of the bleak spectacle, it is the time for the naked shade trees to shine. Foley might be found in public gardens at this time of year with his camera, as he says, "looking at the trees, the gestures of the trees, the feeling of how long they have been there and the stateliness of them."
All this and more is conveyed at an exhibit of winter landscape photography, "Glorious Winter," on display at the U.S. Botanic Garden until Jan. 27. In the West Orangerie, visitors will find 12 of Foley's winter images along with seven by photographer Barbara Southworth of Alexandria
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