When faced with overwhelming choices in beautiful gardens, it is almost essential for garden photographers to give themselves a target, an assignment. These days, I am stalking geraniums. True, it is great to wander around a wonderful garden, drinking in beauty, grabbing shots, but too often such photos end up as snapshots without a story [...]
If you want to be a garden photographer you need to think like a gardener. You are not just taking a picture of a landscape, you are photographing a garden. This may seem obvious, but it is important to keep it in mind as you look at a scene and try to tell your story. [...]
When you set out to photograph a garden, don’t miss the details and vignettes. Often the essence of what you see can be distilled down to distinct details, details that tell the story of what you feel. This is the last lesson in “Seeing the Garden”, chapter two of the PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop. Throughout [...]
We finish the chapter on ‘Good Garden Photography’ with part six – telling stories. I will have a whole chapter, ‘Think Like a Gardener’ that is about finding the themes that can be found in all good gardens, but for now and as you review your year’s images, think about what you are saying with [...]