Steve Hartman wanted Geoff Burleigh's photos to exist into perpetuity.
Geoff Burleigh was a resident of the San Fernando Valley since 1933, and worked for Pacific Telephone for 41 years. He died in February 2006.
Geoff was a persistent and diligent photographer and CNPS field trip leader; his main "focus" was the genus Calochortus. Steve and Geoff botanized together, and Steve wanted to ensure that Geoff's photos would exist into perpetuity. To that end, he scanned Geoff's slides and then contacted Calflora to upload over 8,800 of Geoff's photos in to the Calflora database. Geoff assigned plant species names to his slides; he also assigned locations descriptions to his photos which Calflora converted to point locations.
