Aloe Photos
It is now winter and the Aloe arborescens are blooming. Aloe arborescens candelabra aloe winter flowering succulent in San Francisco Botanical Garden In [...]
Seeing Shapes
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." - Ansel Adams. Whenever I look for photos, I [...]
Exploring an Oak
Says Mary Oliver: "Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable. [...]
2.6 Details and Vignettes
When you set out to photograph a garden, don’t miss the details and vignettes. The essence of what you see can often be distilled down [...]
2.5 Space and Shape
Most of us see in three dimensions, but a camera sees in only two. In this lesson, as we learn more about seeing the garden [...]
2.4 Point of View
Meadow garden as seen from behind two trees—a point of view: Meadow as a clearing in the woods. Want to take better garden [...]
2.3 – Leading Lines
When trying to find a good photographic composition in a garden, a key concept is to look for leading lines. These are lines, either straight [...]
2.2 Focal Points
The focal point of a picture is where you want to draw your viewer’s attention; it is the subject, the story of the photograph. It [...]
2.1- Framing A Composition
Juxtaposition and forced perspective: a bed of tulips framed by a garden balustrade Throughout Section Two, we will deal with the tools [...]
2.0 Intro – Think Like A Camera
The first lesson in all my garden photography workshops is to "think like a camera." Your camera is a tool, which can only take a [...]
