year in review
Garden & Gun’s Top Photos of 2023
A look back at fifty of our favorite shots from the pages of the magazine this year
PHOTO: PETER FRANK EDWARDS
Stone crab claws and whole fried lane snapper at Key Largo Fisheries.
“Exploring the Hidden Florida Keys”
PHOTO: BRENT HUMPHREYS
Chuck Charnichart, one of the best brisket cooks in the Lone Star State.
“Meet the Young Texas Pitmaster Cooking Up a Dynamic Future for Barbecue”
PHOTO: Randal Ford
Maverick, a mighty Texas longhorn from Fort Worth.
PHOTO: LEANN MUELLER
An inviting Bee’s Knees at Julep in Houston.
Photo: NICK KELLEY
A white-tailed deer at the East Foundation’s El Sauz Ranch.
“Conservation’s New Frontier in South Texas”
Photo: Nick Kelley
Wildlife scientist Abe Woodard with Lexi.
“Conservation’s New Frontier in South Texas”
Photo: Nick Kelley
James Powell, the East Foundation’s director of communications, quail hunting at San Antonio Viejo Ranch.
“Conservation’s New Frontier in South Texas”
Photo: Nick Kelley
A weathered saddle at the East Foundation’s San Antonio Viejo Ranch, in Hebbronville, Texas.
“Conservation’s New Frontier in South Texas”
PHOTO: ROBBY KLEIN
Jason Isbell, photographed at the Mockingbird Theater in Franklin, Tennessee.
Photo: Johnny Autry
The Long Hello cocktail.
“A Sparkling Cocktail That’s Worth the Squeeze”
Photo: ERIC RYAN ANDERSON
Larkin Poe sisters Rebecca (left) and Megan Lovell, with her signature slide guitar, photographed outside of Nashville.
PHOTO: ROBBY KLEIN
Presenting the South’s hottest guitar heroes.
Photo: Zoe Rain
Carl “Buffalo” Nichols tunes up in his studio.
Photo: PETER FRANK EDWARDS
A fishing boat in the waters off Soufriere, Dominica.
Photo: PETER FRANK EDWARDS
“Pump” Laville opens a coconut to serve guests at his farm deep in the jungle of Dominica.
“On Dominica, the Ultimate Caribbean Castaway Experience”
Photo: GATELY WILLIAMS
A half rack of ribs with sides at Captain Stan’s Smokehouse in Woodbine, Georgia.
“A Motorcycle Cruise Up US 17, the Coastal Highway”
Photo: Margaret Houston Dominick
Peering through a gate linking two churchyards at St. Philip’s cemetery in Charleston.
“A Guide to a Charleston Garden Walk”
photo: brie williams
Inside the Birmingham loft and studio of artist William Rushton.
“A Birmingham Painter’s Light-Filled Perch”
Photo: PETER FRANK EDWARDS
Young campers raft Idaho’s Snake River as part of the On River Time program.
Photo: PETER FRANK EDWARDS
Hauling in a brown trout.
PHOTO: WINNIE AU
ABC News journalist and Georgia native Deborah Roberts.
“Deborah Roberts Is Head of the Class”
photo: david mcclister
Lucinda Williams with her custom-made electric guitar.
“The Epic Return of Lucinda Williams”
Photo: ROBBY KLEIN
photo: gately williams
Stan Mieloch, of Captain Stan’s Smokehouse in Woodbine, Georgia, with a half rack of ribs.
“A Motorcycle Cruise Up US 17, the Coastal Highway”
Photo: NICK KELLEY
Guide Winston Kingman casts near the mouth of Margot Creek in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.
“A Fly Fisherman’s Alaskan Adventure”
Photo: Johnny Autry
Chef Rob McDaniel’s warm banana pudding.
“Banana Pudding’s Heated Debate”
Photo: CHRISTINA and DAVID FRANUSICH
A portion of Travis Milton’s 450-pair Air Jordan collection, displayed on a barn at Nicewonder Farm & Vineyards in Bristol, Virginia.
“A Sneakerhead in the Kitchen: 450 Air Jordans and Counting”
Photo: Johnny Autry
A stack of benne seed pancakes from Vern’s in Charleston.
“Cover: The Entertaining Special”
Photo: Johnny Autry
Game-day wings slathered in a Cheerwine-based barbecue sauce.
“Grilled Cheerwine Chicken Wings”
Photo: Johnny Autry
Cheetie Kumar’s refreshing summer cocktail.
PHOTO: AUSTIN HARGRAVE
Dennis Quaid with Peaches, his English bulldog.
PHOTO: AUSTIN HARGRAVE
Peaches and Quaid lounge by the pool.
PHOTO: KATE THOMPSON
Farmer-florist Dee Hall in her Norfolk, Virginia, garden.
PHOTO: GATELY WILLIAMS
Jennie L. Stephens, photographed in the historic Cherry Hill Classroom in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
“Champions of Conservation 2023”
PHOTO: WILL CROOKS
The Utopian Seed Project’s Chris Smith.
“Champions of Conservation 2023”
PHOTO: JAKE EASTHAM
Sid, an English springer spaniel, ready for action in southern England.
Cover: The Ultimate International Sporting Trips
Photo: Johnny Autry
A Belizean rum sour.
PHOTO: HARIS KENJAR
A peek into the pantry of Hillery Head’s home on Lake Martin, Alabama.
“An Inviting Alabama Lake House Tells a Family Story”
PHOTO: TOM PARKER
James Knight with his Irish wolfhounds at Ireland’s Ashford Castle.
“Twelve International Sporting Lodges”
PHOTO: ANDREW HYSLOP
A successful day at Martha quail plantation in Tallahassee.
PHOTO: TERRY ALLEN
Biologist Mike Chamberlain holds a wild turkey feather.
“Champions of Conservation 2023”
Photo: WILLIAM HEREFORD
Photo: CHRIS GRANGER
Boat restorer Win Turner sails on Mobile Bay along the Fairhope, Alabama, shoreline.
“Fairhope, Alabama, Has Stories to Tell”
PHOTO: PATRICIA LYONS
A 1954 GMC pickup in Essex County, Virginia.
PHOTO: PATRICIA LYONS
Foraged boxwood and Russian olive garlands, entwined with scarlet ribbon, dried pepperberry, and preserved orange, grapefruit, and lime slices, deck the west parlor’s mantel.
“Mary Spotswood Underwood’s Foraged Christmas”
PHOTO: PATRICIA LYONS
Shed antlers and foraged greenery decorate a pop-up bar on the back of Mr. Anderson, a restored 1954 GMC pickup.
“Mary Spotswood Underwood’s Foraged Christmas”
PHOTO: ANDREW THOMAS LEE
Jumbo lump crab mayonnaise, topped with trout roe, at Marcel in Atlanta.
“John T. Edge Time Travels at an Atlanta Steakhouse”
PHOTO: ERIK CARTER
Sarah Paulson kicking up her Larroudé heels in West Hollywood, in a Prada sweater and skirt.
“The Shape-Shifting Sarah Paulson”
Photo: PETER FRANK EDWARDS
Waves crash on the seawall at Rincón’s Tres Sirenas Beach Inn in Puerto Rico.
“Puerto Rico’s West Coast Flavor”
Photo: PETER FRANK EDWARDS
A lively nighttime streetscape in Old San Juan.
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