One of the great joys of being a garden photographer is the constant requests for beautiful garden pictures. I never have to acknowledge winter. While there certainly is beauty in winter, almost everyone wants to see gardens at their peak. Just yesterday, a client asked for an oversize photo to fill the back of a trade [...]
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Picture This – PhotoBotanic – Garden Photography
January 10, 2015 – Posted in: Garden Photography, MiscellaneousHappy New Year friends !! Big doings. Monumental news in the world of garden photography. Picture This is back at Gardening Gone Wild ! Our group blog event / contest, started in 2009 catapulting our first winner, Pam Penick, to national stardom. ;-) The contest is known as a gateway to fame and fortune to [...]
Making an Art Print
December 11, 2014 – Posted in: Garden PhotographyIt 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 [...]
Planning a Workshop
November 10, 2014 – Posted in: Garden PhotographyWhenever I do photography workshops I visit the garden just before to get a head start on what the students will see. So it was with great delight I recently visited UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. My workshop is from my new PhotoBotanic Garden Photography e-book, the lesson on Composition and Balance, and I needed to see [...]
On the Path to Art
October 25, 2014 – Posted in: Garden PhotographyThis will be a bit of a challenge. Photos are supposed to tell a story, so I present a series of photos without comment. The set up: I was in Hoyt Arboretum in Portland, Oregon looking to add two photos into my lecture “Finding the Photo”. I always try to add photos that are current and [...]