Seeing Shapes
"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter." - Ansel Adams. Whenever I look for photos, I [...]
The O’Byrne Tapestry Garden
No garden has ever thrilled me more than the O’Byrne garden. Carex flagellifera – Weeping Brown Sedge in pot on pedestal with whimsical chair [...]
Do Sweat the Small Stuff
During the autumn, for many years, I have been photographing the Tupelo tree in my front yard. The Tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) is one of the [...]
Pruning with Photoshop
Sometimes when I photograph a garden, wanting to show a useful plant in a clever setting, I want it to be an illustration more than a [...]
Composing with Color
On a cool gray autumn day I went looking for color in my garden. I did not expect to see a red hole into another universe. [...]
3.1 Design and Space
Finding your own style as a garden photographer begins with your understanding of gardens. Think like the gardener within, then get inside the garden to [...]
2.5 Space and Shape
Most of us see in three dimensions, but a camera sees in only two. In this lesson, as we learn more about seeing the garden [...]
Too Much Fun
It was spring. I knew my Ribes sanguineum was crying out to be photographed. A siren song really. She beckoned and seduced me away [...]
Photo Overwhelm
One of the biggest lessons for students who take my garden photography workshops is about “seeing”. If you don’t stop to think what you are really [...]
The One
Often, the most fun work of the editing and post production from any photo shoot is finding The One, the one shot that makes [...]