Andrea Jones has specialized in photographing plants, garden design, and landscape architecture for more than fifteen years. Her many assignments have taken her all over the world illustrating books, magazines, and newspapers. She is a regular contributor to House and Garden, Country Living, The Telegraph, National Geographic, BBC Gardens Illustrated, The English Garden, and Garden Design. Her book, Plantworlds, was distributed by Italian publisher, Damiani, in 2005. Her latest book project is The Great Gardens of North America to be written by Tim Richardson and published by Frances Lincoln in August 2009. From their farm in Scotland, she and her husband, Alasdair, run her photo stock library, Garden Exposures Photo library.

Artist Statement: One of the great privileges of my work as a photographer of plants and gardens is being given access to beautiful places before the public are allowed in - or in this case before the owners wake up. I always prefer to be in place before dawn, ready and waiting when the light comes through. I selected this avenue because the owner, a huge contemporary dance enthusiast, had asked for the trees to be pruned in shapes that echoed the movement of dancers. The sun rose slowly after I arrived at this garden in the Hamptons on Long Island the light filtering through the leaves and gradually becoming more intense. The picture brings back the memory of an emotional moment when the light streamed though the trees. I'm in the hands of the gods when it comes to weather but this was a moment that worked - the sculpted trees became bathed in golden light.