Lessons in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop
Carrizo Plain Panoramas
I suspect that anyone who loves wildflowers heard about the super bloom in California this year. After five years of drought and dry winters, most [...]
Gray Card and White Balance
Whenever I am on a commercial flower shoot I use a gray card to help me render the flower color correctly. It is a very [...]
Magnolia Exposure – Plus and Minus
Photographing trees is always a challenge. Trying to find a point of view to see the whole tree and separating it from its surroundings to [...]
Photographing Rose Bouquets
Photographing Rose Bouquets is excerpted from the forthcoming PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses. Discounts on the preorder page. Rose bouquet with English roses 'L.D.Braithwaite' [...]
Advanced Techniques for Photographing Roses
3 Roses as Photobotanic Illustrations - 'Belle of Portugal' 'Mme Isaac Pereire'; 'Apple Blossom' Let's go beyond the basics of photographing roses. In the [...]
Photographing Wildflowers
Long before I ever took a photograph of any plant or flower, I loved botanic illustrations. In college I worked in a framing shop that [...]
Flower Compositions – Watch the Background
When an exciting photo presents itself we tend to only see what we want to see. This is especially true when looking intently at a [...]
Workshop – Plant Vignettes
Every garden story needs details and vignettes, especially plant portraits - but the portraits needn't be mug shots. The plants should be "of the garden" and give [...]
Tough Plants – Tough Climates
Dawn in the Zambrano garden, Albuquerque, New Mexico I try to treat every garden I visit with a sense of wonder, open to [...]
Frost in the Garden
For those of you in real winter climates, please humor this Californian who went photo crazy in the garden the other morning when it got [...]