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Details and Vignettes

Lesson 6

Think Like a Camera series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

A camera is a great tool that helps you distill overall impressions into a distinct capture — those details we really see. This lesson will help you learn to find the photo within the photo. Details and Vignettes is the sixth and final lesson in THINK LIKE A CAMERA, the second series of the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop with garden photographer Saxon Holt. The camera is an artistic tool that frames a composition in two dimensions. Learn techniques of lines, shape, and focal points found in all good gardens to fill the frame with strong compositions.

$1.99

Design and Space

Lesson 1

Think Like a Gardener series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

Every garden has a theme, whether accidental or purposeful, well-maintained or messy. The garden fits into its surroundings, and that fit is the design — how it occupies the space it lives in. Design is a big part of the story of any good garden photograph. Design and Space is the first lesson in the THINK LIKE A GARDENER series: a collection of exercises designed to extend the photographer's perception of garden design to finding themes and telling stories. The THINK LIKE A GARDENER series is part three of the 4-part PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop. There are six easy to follow lessons in each series.

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Hardscape

Lesson 2

Think Like a Gardener series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

Hardscape is what physically defines a garden — the bones. For landscape architects, it is the frame upon which the plants are draped; look for it as you consciously compose your picture. Hardscape is the second lesson in the THINK LIKE A GARDENER series: a collection of exercises designed to extend the photographer's perception of garden design to finding themes and telling stories.

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Weather, Moods, and Seasons

Lesson 3

Think Like a Gardener series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

To a gardener, it may seem obvious that daffodils suggest spring, roses peak in summer, apples mean autumn, and bare trees represent winter. This may be obvious to you but perhaps not to your viewer. And it may be so obvious to you that you overlook the seasonal potential for garden photography. Weather, Moods, and Seasons is the third lesson in the THINK LIKE A GARDENER series: a collection of exercises designed to extend the photographer's perception of garden design to finding themes and telling stories.

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Using the Light

Lesson 4

Think Like a Gardener series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

Garden photographers must learn to avoid hot, contrasty light and understand that soft light gives a better dynamic range and rich, realistic color. Using the Light is the fourth lesson in the THINK LIKE A GARDENER series: a collection of exercises designed to extend the photographer's perception of garden design to finding themes and telling stories.

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Finding a Theme

Lesson 5

Think Like a Gardener series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

When faced with the overwhelming choices in a beautiful garden, it is almost essential for garden photographers to give themselves a target, an assignment. Finding a Theme is the fifth lesson in the THINK LIKE A GARDENER series: a collection of exercises designed to extend the photographer's perception of garden design to finding themes and telling stories.

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Photographing Garden Plants

Lesson 6

Think Like a Gardener series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

A photograph of a plant should be as carefully considered as was the plant when it was placed in the garden. The photo should reveal a genuine understanding of the plant in its setting. Photographing Garden Plants is the sixth lesson in the THINK LIKE A GARDENER series: a collection of exercises designed to extend the photographer's perception of garden design to finding themes and telling stories.

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PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses Softcover

$29.95

Now available as Softcover Edition

Inspired by The American Rose Society and eight rose books, this comprehensive guide to photographing roses covers techniques mastered over 30 years of shooting the queen flower of the plant kingdom.

This softcover printed book is on our Blurb Store. Please note: this directs you to separate Checkout Cart.

(E-Book pdf download $14.95)

Hardy Succulents – Autographed

$19.95

Hardy Succulents - Tough Plants for every Climate

From agaves to ice plants, and from sedums to sempervivums, hardy succulent plants bring beauty, versatility, and intrigue to perennial gardens in every hardiness zone. No longer relegated to desert climates, succulents offer extraordinary color, texture, durability, and ease of care. It's no wonder succulents are some of the hottest plants to capture the attention of enthusiastic growers in all zones. USA Shipping Only

Grasses

$19.95

Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design

"GRASSES - a beautiful and practical guide to raising ornamental grasses in one's garden. Filled cover to cover with excellent color photographs by life-long gardener and gardening photographer Saxon Holt of aesthetic and splendid grasses, the profusely illustrated text presents the reader with a wide choice of colored grasses to best accentuate the beauty of one's garden and how to best select choice plants for wet, dry, hot, or shady sites. Highly recommended for personal and professional gardening, horticultural and landscaping reference collections, even non-gardeners will appreciate the dazzling, coffee-table book quality photography of this singularly elegant yet practical guide." USA Shipping Only

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Plants and Landscapes for Summer Dry Climates

$34.95

Now Sold Out and Out of Print. A CD of the plant photographs in searchable database can be ordered here. The inspiration for the Summer-Dry book in the PhotoBotanic Learning Center, this beautiful 320-page book features more than 650 native Californian and Mediterranean plants photographed in garden settings. It showcases landscaping in summer-dry climates such as the West Coast of California and other Mediterranean regions of the world. If we are to promote sustainable garden practices in California and other summer-dry climates we need to change the aesthetic of what we expect to see in a garden photograph to give gardeners a new way of considering beauty in gardens.

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The American Meadow Garden

$500.00

Now Sold Out and Out of Print. Used copies may be available Amazon. Collector's book - $500, autographed copies by John Greenlee and Saxon Holt. The American Meadow Garden; Published by Timber Press with John Greenlee as my writer. OK, OK most folks think I was John’s photographer, but if you are reading this you KNOW photographers get equal billing. Whoever’s book it is, I think we made a good team. The book won awards from The Garden Writers Association and The American Horticultural Society. It begins with a survey of natural meadows around the United States, showing the magnificent variety of meadows and grass ecologies that form the basis of any garden meadow. The book then profiles garden meadows in regions across the country from Chicago, St Louis, Albuquerque and Los Angeles and includes an encyclopedia of grasses. Read more on the Amazon order page.

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Details and Vignettes

Lesson 6

Think Like a Camera series

$1.99

Design and Space

Lesson 1

Think Like a Gardener series

$1.99

Hardscape

Lesson 2

Think Like a Gardener series

$1.99

Weather, Moods, and Seasons

Lesson 3

Think Like a Gardener series

$1.99

Using the Light

Lesson 4

Think Like a Gardener series

$1.99

Finding a Theme

Lesson 5

Think Like a Gardener series

$1.99

Photographing Garden Plants

Lesson 6

Think Like a Gardener series

$1.99

PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses Softcover

Hardy Succulents – Autographed

Hardy Succulents - Tough Plants for every Climate

Grasses

Grasses: Versatile Partners for Uncommon Garden Design

Plants and Landscapes for Summer Dry Climates

The American Meadow Garden

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