It is such a relief, a release really, when I can stop my crazy production schedule and create something new. Too much of what I seem to be doing these days is looking back at old work as I put the final touches on The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops. My next post will be the [...]
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Frosted Camellias
December 11, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Musings, Garden PhotographyEven in California, frost causes problems. And when it comes in early December it causes big problems. Almost every gardener I know here in the Northern part of the state pushes the limits of their garden. It’s California ! – it is our birthright to grow tropicals and tender succulents, plants that are barely hardy [...]
Tools for flower photography
May 12, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Photography, Garden PhotographyYou have heard of farm to table ? Here is garden to wall. I simply could not resist making a PhotoBotanic illustration of this Iris in my garden. My studio was all set up from yesterday’s rose shoot and I wanted to practice photo stacking on a more complicated flower than a rose. Off into [...]
Photos in the Garden
April 10, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Photography, Garden Photography, Garden PlantsWant a tip on how to take good garden pictures ? Pick up your camera and go out into a garden. You can’t get good pictures if you don’t take any pictures. Put yourself in a position to make something happen. April 2 was a day to take photos in my own garden. It was [...]