Chinese Garden at the Huntington | Feng Shui in Your Garden

Hi Doug and Gloria,

Thank you. Like most things in life, some of these amazing places are not always in the  forefront of consciousness today. They are there , they are known of. Photo stories of these treasures are more rare than they should be. One of my hopes is that by sharing detailed photos of the experience, more  will realize what assets they have that can and do enrich their lives. The more we see , the more things are shared,  the more aware we become  of these treasures. While the experience may not  change someones life, the experience adds to one's overall life of experiences and that awareness is essential.

Hi Hannah, Woo Hoo! What a great compliment. Thank you so much.

Hi Renee, Thank you so much. it was a wonderful experience. The Docent I spent the day with, really knew a great deal and as  a result, I learned a lot.

Hi Sharon, They have centuries to perfect it and they do know ow to create tha special balance of nature and design. And thank you for your wonderful compliment. Comments like these really inspire me to provide more and more.

I am writing a new post about the Desert Garden and the photo show hopefully will please.

Hi Bill, You crack me up. I hope you can wait around for the second hundred years, cause I'm guessing that it might take that long while for them to doble in size, LMAO.

Hi Georgiana, it was pretty warm day and I was so excited seeing these amazing gardens that I forgot to use my nose and observe the fragrances. :-)

Good Morning Laura, Thank you so much for your wonderful compliment. I hope you will one day soon get a change to see the Huntington, it is quite an amazing place.

I really don't have a recommendation for a camera other than to say I use a Nikon D-90 and like it a great deal. It sounds as though you might prefer a point and shoot  camera. Because I know of the many things that can be accomplished with an SLR, I favor that direction. Currently Nikon offer a D-5000 that is a an SLR, shots video and a variety of other features that make it a pretty good buy. I would suggest this, if affordability not the driving factor in a selection, I would recommend a SLR type camera . The all have the the automatic point and shoot  but in time, things may change and you may want to have the more advanced features of an SLR in including being able to use the myriad of lens selections for the camera.. If you get a good camera that would allow you to "sort of grow into it", I think that is the better choice longer term.

There are so many good cameras out there and other than my own selection it is hard to recommend for someone else since that is not my level of expertise.  But I am convinced that SLR is preferable for the longer term than a point and shoot. Hopefully this response will inspire you to at least consider that direction.

As to the black and white photos. Because there are so many great post processing programs out there, I think it preferable to always shoot in color and then convert to black and white which is remarkably easy. Then you always have the original should you want to revert to color for another use.

Hello Pippa, Working on setting one up. Thank you for the compliment.

Hi Debra, Thank you. It is a stunnig property and this is only a very small part. I will post more on this estate and museum and library, etc.

Hi Pamela, Thank you so very much for the great comment and compliment. I am delighted you found this as well and hope you check in to see so many other things I will present here in the Rain. The Huntington Chinese garden is really very special. The structures alone would be awesome but when coupled with the amazing design of the grounds is certainty a place to be enjoyed many times over. One of the things I also observed was even with it's grand size, it represents on a small part of the total. There is so much there and even an 8 hour visit barely skimmed the surface.  took over 650 photos and it was closing time.