Botanical Gardens NY Photo Shoot
New York Photo Shoot: Botanical Gardens
Photo shoot with the Planet Photo Tribe - NYC!
The New York Botanical Garden is a living museum, an educational institution, and a plant research and conservation organization.
It was March 2020, a year ago this week. School was closed mid-week for a teacher development day so we planned to a NY photoshoot with Taylor and Olivia that day. Our location was the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx. We planned our outfits, ordered new clothes (of course) and reserved our entry tickets for the Orchid exhibit. I'd seen pictures of the orchids and also seen the crowded greenhouses but we figured we might be lucky and get a couple of open shots if we went mid-week. New York was starting to talk about COVID and recommending that older people stay home to stay safe, but we decided we would still go, we would just skip lunch in the Bronx and make a quick trip.
As the day progressed we watched as more and more CT schools closed and we waited for the word on Taylor and Olivia's school. Maybe we were going to get an extra long spring break! What we didn't realize was that we picked the last day before the lockdown closed schools in Connecticut for two weeks. Well, of course, now we all know how that two week shut down turned out....
The annual orchid exhibition is scaled down this year but we were lucky enough to spend some time in the almost deserted conservatories on a spring day in 2020. I realized that I only shared a few of the images from the NY botanical gardens photoshoot and they deserve to be seen. So here are some of my favorites from that wonderful day before we really knew about social distancing and face masks or hybrid school days.
