Cropping A Crabapple
No, this is not a gardening tip on how to prune trees, it is about careful cropping of a photograph. Spring flowering ‘Liset’ crabapple [...]
Two Quince in a Tree
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 [...]
Panoramas on the Prairie
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 [...]
Carrizo Plain Panoramas
I suspect that anyone who loves wildflowers heard about the super bloom in California this year. After five years of drought and dry winters, most [...]
Today’s Tip – A Little Cropping
Sometimes all it takes is a wee bit of cropping to fill the frame and have a full composition. In all my ‘fill the frame’ [...]
Poppy Crop
Layia platyglossa, Tidy Tips, yellow flowering wildflower in California native plants in pollinator garden at Los Angeles Natural History Museum Sometimes the best [...]
1.1 – Composition 101: Fill the Frame
We begin Composition 101 with one basic rule: fill the frame. Remember this primary concept every time you take a picture. Each lesson in this [...]
Prairie Delights
While I was in Minnesota working with Evelyn Hadden on her "Lose Your Lawn" book I could not pass up the opportunity to visit the [...]