I live in California. In summer I can plan a camping trip and never worry about rain. I don’t worry about my roses getting beat up in a storm and veggies love all day sun. But I need to irrigate all summer; and so does every farm and every garden – all summer. It doesn’t [...]
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Hardscape in garden photos
May 30, 2013 – Posted in: Garden PhotographyTo get a good garden photo, look for hardscape to help define your composition and tell the story, a story about the structure of the garden, how it is put together, what elements, besides the plants, make it work. In this lesson of the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop, we continue the assignment theme “Think Like [...]
Indoor Plant Decor Book and Giveaway
May 7, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Design, SucculentsTo celebrate the release of their new book Indoor Plant Decor, co-authors Jenny Peterson and Kylee Baumle are having an online celebration via GGW and several other garden blogs. GGW’s door prize is a $25 gift certificate to Logee’s, a mail-order source of rare and unusual plants. The photo above shows the book on my [...]
Get Inside the Garden
March 27, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Photography, Garden PhotographyThink Like a Gardener – Design and Shape. The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop – Lesson 3.1 [...]
Photo Lesson – Leading Lines
January 25, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Photography, Garden PhotographyWhen trying to find a photo in a garden, a key concept is to look for leading lines. These are lines you, the photographer, find in a garden that can lead the viewer’s eye into the photo. These lines can frame your composition and lead to focal points as well, but fundamentally they must start [...]