"Every technique assumes that you will use the whole frame as we learned in Lesson 1. Now, how do we arrange the elements into a balanced composition?"
"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."
"So far, in these lessons on garden photography, we have explored the rudiments of composition and light in making good garden photos. In this lesson, we step back and begin to analyze why we take pictures"
"This lesson in the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop covers a wide range of ideas to help you create your own style, to provoke and inspire your viewers."
Prints beginning at $30 with optional framing. Also available as Notecards.
Printed on a cream border including Title and PhotoBotanic Press edition.
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Palm Rays - Palma de Guadelupe first appeared in The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop: Lesson 2.3 Leading Lines.
Limited edition of 5 signed 20 x 30 Giclée prints. Printed on archival watercolor paper and signed next to the title.This PhotoBotanic illustration is on buff background. Camellia 'Tulip Time' is an "extraction" of the flower from the garden.
Limited Edition Giclée Print, Signed by Saxon Holt
From the book 100 Old Roses for the American Garden
Centered on heavy watercolor 11x14 archival paper, the lined "book" image is 8 x 10.5.
Austrian Copper is an early species hybrid of Rosa foetida bicolor
Limited Edition Giclée Print, Signed by Saxon Holt
From the book 100 Old Roses for the American Garden
Centered on heavy watercolor 11x14 archival paper, the lined "book" image is 8 x 10.5.
Belle of Portugal is a Climber from 1900, its nodding flowers are especially dramatic when viewed from below.
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.
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.