NYBG Photography

New York Botanical Garden Photographer

April 20, 2024

NYBG Photography at the Orchid Evening

March 27, 2022 in Event Photographer, Photo, Photographer, Press Photographer

NYBG Marriage Proposal Photography

November 11, 2021

It’s funny how you get connected to certain work, but I’m grateful for all referrals. The New York Botanical Gardens photography team connected me with a few marriage proposal clients this month. Always a pleasure to document someone special moment. And NYBG is such an incredible backdrop for a marriage proposal photographer. If you need a photographer to document your marriage proposal don’t hesitate to ask.

NYBG Marriage Proposal Photographer at the New York Botanical Gardens

NYBG Photography

August 29, 2021

NYBG Giant Pumpkin Weekend

October 26, 2019

NYBG Harvest Honey

October 12, 2019

NYBG Concert on the Lawn - Mipso

August 14, 2016 in Photo

NYBG Concert on the Lawn - Mipso

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

Over the years the group has claimed various origins of the word "Mipso." In 2013 guitarist Joseph Terrell stated that the members "just came up with it." In 2013 bassist Wood Robinson claimed that the name referred to a now defunct Japanese appliance manufacturer, crediting Jacob Sharp's thesis research into post-war Japan with unearthing a reference to the company. Sharp confirmed this version of the story in an interview with Bluegrass Today. In a September 2015 interview with Raleigh's News & Observer, however, Terrell revealed a new origin story, claiming to want to dispel previous rumors. “There’s a phrase in Japan,” he explains, “it means something familiar, but there’s something a little bit off. And it roughly translates, or at least we were told, to ‘a little pee in the miso.’ And so we put a little P in the miso: Mipso.” This story has subsequently been published and re-confirmed in various publications.

The Corpse Flower at NYBG

July 29, 2016 in Photo

The Corpse Flower finally blooms and spreads it's smell around the conservatory at NYBG. (Photo by Ben Hider)

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

New York Botanical Gardens Impressionism: American Gardens Canvas

The New York Botanical Gardens "Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas"

May 15, 2016 in Event Photographer, Photo

The New York Botanical Gardens "Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas"

It was fantastic to photograph the opening weekend of the new show at the botanical gardens and it was such a great success.

Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester

American Impressionism, a prominent artistic style that flourished at the turn of the 20th century, comes to life in a captivating Garden-wide exhibition. In the Conservatory, stroll through an American Impressionist garden, a stunning interpretation by Francisca Coelho, NYBG's renowned curator and designer, of the alluring gardens that influenced iconic artists such as Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. In the Art Gallery, view a beautiful complementary display of more than 20 paintings and sculptures by these famed artists and their contemporaries that capture the colors, shadows, and ephemeral quality of light they observed in the natural world and infused in their distinctive imagery; the collection has been assembled by Guest Curator Linda S. Ferber, Ph.D., Director Emerita and Senior Art Historian of the New-York Historical Society.