Joshua Trees – Big Succulents
My friend Nora is helping me on The Summer-Dry Project, an effort to expand the photo database at summer-dry.com. We want to enlarge the efforts [...]
Making Sales – Curb Appeal
In this all consuming passion to make PhotoBotanic into a self-publishing site it is sometimes easy to forget the core business is licensing photos. And sometimes [...]
Day in the life of a Self Publisher
David, the eBook designer, showed up with proofs for Book 2 today. Since it is promised for January 21, it may seem like a tight [...]
Before/After in the Learning Center
One of the wonderful - cool things I can do with on-line teaching is to show before and after scenes in the same frame. I [...]
The Garden as Creative Source
March 22 (only), 2015 - The Garden as Creative Source - An intensive PhotoBotanic symposium at University of California Botanical Garden with Saxon Holt, Allan Mandell, and David [...]
Palm Rays – Palma de Guadalupe
These palm fronds from Brahea edulis, known as the Guadalupe Palm or Palma de Guadalupe (much more romantic sounding I think) were found glowing in [...]
4.0 Intro – The Camera and Computer
oil paint photoshop filter screenshot Section 4 of The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops. Both the digital camera and the computer are tools best [...]
Lepechinia fragrans – Backlight magic
The latest post in the Learning Center is about backlight, and culminates with this new print. Lepechinia fragans is a California native plant, Fragrant Pitcher [...]
The Photo Workshop
I really have been having fun running garden photography workshops. Each class has become a lesson on one particular theme, and students always surprise me [...]
Good Garden Photography – The Book
The first book in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop The book received the 2015 Gold Award from the Garden Writer's Association as best [...]