Mark St. Mary is an accomplished photographer who has formal training in floriculture/horticulture and holds a Masters in biology with an emphasis in restoration ecology. In addition, he is a professional landscaper and carpenter whose other means of artistic expression are restoring period houses and designing and building custom furniture.

His passion for natural materials and for design began at an early age. He began serious gardening at age eight, and age nine, he bought his first camera—a Kodak 126 Instamatic with “close up” mode—by selling greeting cards door-to-door.  From this first camera, he quickly moved to an Argus C3 and then to Minolta 35mm SLR, primarily developing and printing his own black and white work. The majority of the images currently for sale were shot with a Canon A620 digital camera.  None of his prints are digitally altered beyond standard darkroom techniques of cropping, brightness and contrast adjustment.

As an amateur photographer for 36 years, he began to show his work for the first time in 2007. Throughout this time, his independent photographic work has been in three areas: botanical studies, studies of pattern, and studies of color.

He currently lives with his wife, Marcia, two dogs and a very noisy cat in their 1890’s house at the edge of downtown New Haven, Connecticut.