Good Garden Photography
The first section and first e-book in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop.
“Good” photos are not only well composed, they use color and light effectively, reveal beauty, and tell a story
January 23, 2018
On winter mornings after rain, fog oozes from the earth. The cool air cannot hold all the moisture the ground wants to release, so it [...]
January 16, 2018
I don’t know how many Salvias there are, but I am always finding new ones. I recently went to San Francisco Botanical Garden in search of [...]
January 3, 2018
Have you ever taken a picture of a trees where it looks like they are falling backwards and leaning in ? This is due to [...]
January 3, 2018
Greetings, and a Happy New Year ! Putting together a selection of my favorite photographs from the past year, is both the easiest and the [...]
December 20, 2017
The California landscape has always been shaped by fire. Now two months after the firestorms in Mendocino, Napa, and Sonoma Counties, we begin to see [...]
December 6, 2017
We were distressed to learn the Australian Native Plant Nursery in Casitas Springs, California was burned in the recent Southern California wildfires. Owner, Jo O’Connell, [...]
December 1, 2017
When I first met Ruth Bancroft in 1992, she was already 86. Rounding the corner on an early morning photo shoot in her garden I [...]
November 28, 2017
For photographers working with fall foliage, the underlying structure of tree trunks and branches can provide subtle ways to hold photographs together.
November 26, 2017
The devastating Northern California firestorm that swept through Napa and Sonoma Counties in October left a scorched earth. The Tubb’s Fire that destroyed thousands of [...]
November 15, 2017
It is a great pleasure to be wandering in a garden looking for pictures, and a privilege when she offers fruit. These two Chinese quince [...]









