by James Balston | Feb 25, 2015 | Gardens, Landscapes
The current issue of The English Home magazine, features an elegant neo-Georgian house in the Surrey countryside, which I shot on a beautiful day at the tale-end of last summer. Fortunately, although not part of the brief, I had enough time to capture the lovely... 
by James Balston | Nov 7, 2013 | Blog, Designers & Architects, Gardens, Homes
I first met designer, Paulo Hanke of PHLondon when he was working for Casa Forma, and I was shooting one of their projects in Mayfair. He has since set up his own interior and landscape design company, and I was delighted to shoot his latest project, which combines... 
by James Balston | Sep 11, 2013 | Blog, Gardens, Landscapes
“… hath all too short a date:” Sitting here on a cold grey september morning, summer feels like a hazy dream from which we woke all too abruptly. But at least this year we were graced with its presence. My project to document four seasons in a... 
by James Balston | Feb 16, 2012 | Gardens, Landscapes
“You should have been here this morning, we had the most beautiful hoar frost”, my cousin Jill emailed me to say. I had been planning to revisit Kent for my ongoing project documenting a garden in all seasons, but even with an eye on the forecast... 
by James Balston | Nov 4, 2011 | Gardens, Landscapes
We seem to spend much of the year longing for summer, only to be deeply disappointed when it doesn’t live up to our expectations. But in so many ways summer is the least interesting season. We think of gardens being festooned with flowers, but often they are at...