Seeing the Native Plant Garden
Native plant gardens tend to be hard to photograph. Often the gardeners care more about the plants and habitat than the aesthetics. This is perfectly [...]
Photographing Rose Bouquets
Photographing Rose Bouquets is excerpted from the forthcoming PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses. Discounts on the preorder page. Rose bouquet with English roses 'L.D.Braithwaite' [...]
A Crowded Garden
Earlier in the spring I visited Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania at just the peak of the tulip season. There were thousands of visitors, agog like [...]
Tough Plants – Tough Climates
Dawn in the Zambrano garden, Albuquerque, New Mexico I try to treat every garden I visit with a sense of wonder, open to what [...]
Silver on Silver Background
I just loaded a new gallery into my gardens gallery, a beautiful sustainable garden in Albuquerque, New Mexico designed by Judith Philips. As is often [...]
3.5 Finding A Theme
When faced with overwhelming choices in a beautiful garden, it is almost essential for garden photographers to give themselves a target, an assignment. Geranium [...]
2.6 Details and Vignettes
When you set out to photograph a garden, don’t miss the details and vignettes. The essence of what you see can often be distilled down [...]
2.4 Point of View
Meadow garden as seen from behind two trees—a point of view: Meadow as a clearing in the woods. Want to take better garden [...]
Wending and Wind
Almost all gardens, all sizes, are designed with wending in mind. Don’t you just love that Old English word “wending” ? So casual, carefree, and [...]
Looking for Photos
Come in to my garden this early California spring while I look for photos: Some days you just know the garden wants to be photographed but [...]