Photos on the Road
Should you even try to take pictures when the light is horribly wrong ? Hard, sunny light on flowering cherry at Norfolk Botanic Garden [...]
Should you even try to take pictures when the light is horribly wrong ? Hard, sunny light on flowering cherry at Norfolk Botanic Garden [...]
Come in to my garden this early California spring while I look for photos: Some days you just know the garden wants to be photographed but [...]
It was spring. I knew my Ribes sanguineum was crying out to be photographed. A siren song really. She beckoned and seduced me away [...]
A good garden photograph is more than a pleasing composition. It should communicate something of the photographer’s appreciation of the garden—some insight or provocation. [...]
This chapter in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop covers a wide range of ideas to help you create your own style, to provoke and [...]
A good garden photograph begins with...a good garden. So far, in these lessons on garden photography, we have explored the rudiments of composition and light [...]
Learning how to read the quality of light is the single most important skill in good garden photography. Even a good composition will fail if the light is bad. Photographers talk about “The Light” in reverential terms. It is the lifeblood of outdoor photography, no less than it is the lifeblood of plants for photosynthesis
The first book in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop Winner of the Garden Writer's Association 2015 Gold Award as the Best Overall Book [...]
Let's begin the Workshop. Garden photography lessons with Saxon Holt, a professional garden photographer for 30 years. Saxon has published more than 20 "traditional" books [...]
Crocus 'Tricolor' What's the point of a photograph ? I ask this question every time I click the shutter. Why am I taking [...]