Good Garden Photography

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 [...]

Garden Design Magazine featured this photo in a recent online interview: Photographer Saxon Holt shares his experience capturing the above photo for the Great American [...]

How to find a photo within a photo in landscape garden photography

There is something about prairies that makes them particularly hard to photograph. By definition they are vast and flat. There is the land; there is [...]

The Denver Botanic Garden gets better every time I visit. There are new buildings, like the Science Pyramid pictured above, at the end of a [...]

A recent garden photography workshop at Denver Botanic Garden became a classic lesson on finding photos.  By “finding photos” I ask students to use the [...]

One of the delightful challenges for any garden photographer is to find the photo that best illustrates the story in front of you. That can [...]

When I was first learning about gardening photography I quickly figured out I should never shoot in bright sunlight. The camera cannot hold details in [...]

The 2017 superbloom in the California deserts was a sensation. The superbloom began in late winter in the southern most deserts and progressed northward, even [...]

I guess this photo tip has nothing to do with photographing plants or gardens, but so many people seemed surprised I was able to capture [...]