Whimsy and Provocation
Stop the presses ! We interrupt the regularly scheduled garden photography lessons to bring you some breaking news. While writing a lesson in The PhotoBotanic Garden [...]
Stop the presses ! We interrupt the regularly scheduled garden photography lessons to bring you some breaking news. While writing a lesson in The PhotoBotanic Garden [...]
Native plant gardens are often hard to photograph. Many native gardeners care more about the plants and habitat than the aesthetics. This is perfectly OK [...]
"Why is a tripod so important when stabilization is built into many cameras and lenses ?" asked a student at a recent workshop. I always [...]
One of the biggest lessons for students who take my garden photography workshops is about “seeing”. If you don’t stop to think what you are really [...]
Alert ! I have truly made the big time. Amy Stewart, at Garden Rant called me out, first admiring my Grasses book as garden porn and then pokes me: "Hey [...]
A major theme for good garden photo composition is - Fill the Frame. The great Magnum photographer Robert Capa said "if you photos are not [...]
Office work has been unrelenting, but last Saturday, with an impending storm I could no longer put off fertilizing my rhododendron garden. It began as [...]
While I was in Minnesota working with Evelyn Hadden on her "Lose Your Lawn" book I could not pass up the opportunity to visit the [...]
Often, the most fun work of the editing and post production from any photo shoot is finding The One, the one shot that makes [...]
I am a light stalker with my camera. Finding the best time and the best light to photograph a garden factors into every shoot. These [...]