Ted Osmundson, practiced landscape planning and design for more than fifty years. He is a past president of ASLA and was awarded the ASLA Medal for his work. Osmundson has lectured and written extensively on landscape architecture, in general, and roof garden technology and design, in particular. He is also a well-known photographer.

Artist Statement: Ted had a fantastic ability to see a scene as it would look in a picture and would quickly seize the opportunity by grabbing one of three cameras that he kept with him at all times. While “Old Farmer Resting Near San Giminanno, Italy” is dated 1962, he actually shot the photograph in 1972. The Ca'd'oro Palace is a beautiful building with Moorish touches on the Grand Canal in the Cannaregio District of old Venice. – Lorraine Osmundson