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Point of View

Lesson 4

Think Like a Camera series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

Where will you set up the camera to take the picture you think you see? The exact point of view—slightly to one side of your subject or perhaps down low—is critical to a good composition. Point of View is the fourth 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.

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Provocation and Intrigue

Lesson 5

Good Garden Photography series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

"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."

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Rainy Pansy Botanic Tile
Liven up any room or party and protect your surfaces with our distinctive tile coasters.

Square coaster measuring 4.25" x 4.25", 1/6-inch thick

Images are applied with a polyester resin that accepts dye as part of the coating

Four felt pads protect your furniture from scratches

Dishwasher safe

The Tile designs are also available on other gift and décor items.
Red Aloe – Huntington Garden

Red Aloe - Huntington Gardens first appeared in Making Hard Light Work in the Learning Center Section - Light in the Garden. Prints beginning at $30 with optional framing. Also available as Notecards. Gallery Canvas also available.
Roger’s Red Grape Leaf Tile
Liven up any room or party and protect your surfaces with our distinctive tile coasters.

Square coaster measuring 4.25" x 4.25", 1/6-inch thick

Images are applied with a polyester resin that accepts dye as part of the coating

Four felt pads protect your furniture from scratches

Dishwasher safe
Space and Shape

Lesson 5

Think Like a Camera series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

The camera sees in two dimensions. The shapes and spaces created within the four edges of the frame need to be balanced. Those shapes often include negative space that may result when the three dimensions of real life are reduced down to only two in a photo. Space and Shape is the fifth 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
Spiral Aloe Wine Stopper

$24.95
Don't let any wine go to waste! Save some for later with fun and functional wine stoppers.

Measures 4.25"" x 1.25""

Weight: 2.3 oz.

Chrome finish with black rubber ring

Provides an air tight seal on most size bottles

Great for wine, oil, vinegar and spirits

Hand wash
Summer-Dry Plants Disc

$17.95

Searchable photo database of all photos from Plants and Landscapes for Summer-Dry Climates. PC and Mac Compatible It is part of my mission at PhotoBotanic to provide photos to support best gardening practices and sustainable gardening. I have created an entire royalty free gallery of photos in the stock library for Summer-Dry gardens. The hope is to get more photos of beautiful, successful gardens into the media as evidence of what CAN be done, not what might the done in the theory of catalogs. Use these photos yourself to spread the word.
Telling Stories

Lesson 6

Good Garden Photography series

The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops

"A good garden photograph is more than a pleasing composition. It should communicate something of the photographer’s appreciation of the garden…"

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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.
Think Like A Camera – Workshop E-Book #2

$9.95

Think Like A Camera - Book 2 of the 4 part PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop e-books. Individual lessons available as iBooks.
Think Like A Gardener – Workshop E-Book 3

$9.95

Think Like a Gardener - Book 3 of the 4 part PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop e-books. Individual lessons available as iBooks.
Tulip Time – PhotoBotanic Extraction

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.
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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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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Western Hills Workshop

$199.00

An all day photo shoot with critique in the historic Western Hills garden of rare plants in a beautiful setting. About Western Hills and Workshop Expectations. We intend to build a library of garden photos for this special garden.
Winter Shrub Border with Alder

Winter Shrub Border with Alder first appeared in Gardens to Visit - Winter Trees: Prints beginning at $30 with optional framing. Also available as Notecards.

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