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Photographer Jefferson Evans was born in Memphis, TN and moved to Northern Virginia in 1990 to take a job with the United States Patent & Trademark Office, then in Crystal City, now moved to the Carlyle Campus off Duke Street in Alexandria. A frequent world traveler at the PTO convinced Mr. Evans of the joys of the Old World, even if one must go alone, so around 1993 he took the plunge with a solo jaunt to England. Mr. Evans then convinced his good friend Mr. Herndon of the veracity of said joys and soon the two were regular sojourners through the wonderful places of Europe. Mr. Herndon’s desire to better capture the experience on film led him to educate himself on the art and the equipment of photography (and later become a professional photographer in Memphis), and Jefferson was happy to take advantage of his friends growing expertise.

So travel photography was the beginning. On one trip, while in Munich, Germany our hero proposed to his girl Regina, she said yes, and a new chapter began.

Regina was born in Brooklyn, to a family whose approach to greenery around their house was to pave it over. Growing things, bugs and worms and such, were icky and too be avoided. Enter our friend Cindy Dyer, a kind, earthy, spiritual soul who runs the neighborhood garden club. A new seed was planted both literally and figuratively that has led Regina to the point of loving gardening and being quite good at it (she is off in quest of free mulch as I type this). And to better capture the growing things in our garden and gardens such as Green Springs Garden Park, I obtained a high quality macro lens which brings us to the present and my growing love of closeup flower and plant photography. My friend Jody is all about classic black and white, but I have always loved color and what better place to find wonderful flourishes of color, brilliant and subtle, than in a garden?

Jefferson has sold prints to friends, family, and the occasional stranger. At small neighborhood craft shows and at the A Show of Hands art consignment store off Mt Vernon Avenue in Alexandria. He does hope to more broadly market his images but for now is mostly just happy to enjoy the process, the art, the garden, the travel, and the good people it has all brought him into contact with. Prost!