Pond Views – Western Hills
How to find a photo within a photo in landscape garden photography
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 [...]
Photographing a Lily
An Orienpet Lily in full bloom is a wonder of nature, and will make a flower photographer out of anyone with a camera of any [...]
San Diego Botanic Garden
I have just posted a new gallery of photos from San Diego Botanic Garden. Phoenix roebelenii var. reasoneri (Reasoneri Palm) at San Diego Botanic [...]
Cactus Point of View at Superbloom
The Anza-Borrego desert in California is in the midst of a superbloom wildflower display. California native plant desert garden landscape, Anza Borrego State Park [...]
A Brighter Sky
Whenever there is sky in the frame it is so easy to let the camera meter fool the photographer. The camera meter reads the entire [...]
How to Photograph Roses
The PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses is finally published ! Coming from thirty years of garden photography and eight rose books, distilled here in 92 pages [...]
Glowing Oak
Almost every day I take a morning walk with my dog, Kona in the Oak woodland’s around my house. My back yard is Cherry Hill, [...]
Exposure Correction
When a camera measures light it automatically averages the bright areas with the shadow areas. It is the photographers job to decide if an image needs to [...]
Fixing Light Leaks
Whenever I photograph wooden fences I watch for light leaks. The eye is always drawn to bright areas and the smallest slit in a fence [...]