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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
In our last lesson, we learned to fill the frame of a composition with only those elements that contribute to the story—the most important lesson [...]
We begin Composition 101 with one basic rule: fill the frame. Remember this primary concept every time you take a picture. Each lesson in this [...]
The first book in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop Winner of the Garden Writer's Association 2015 Gold Award as the Best Overall Book [...]
Crocus 'Tricolor' What's the point of a photograph ? I ask this question every time I click the shutter. Why am I taking [...]