Sometimes we photographers get stuck. We are out looking for photos and just can’t seem to find anything special. Often, seeing the garden is just a matter of slowing down and thinking about what it is that excites us. Other times we just need to shake up our point of view. As you look around,[...]
There was a time when I would never shoot in harsh, hard light. Bright, strong, contrasty light tends to have deep, black shadows and no color subtlety. As a garden photographer, when the sun came into the garden I would retreat to the shadows where the light was soft. But I am also a California[...]
With the release of Evelyn Hadden’s new book from Timber Press, “beautiful no-mow yards”, a bunch of bloggers and fellow Lawn Reform Coalition folks decided (with Evelyn’s gentle encouragement) to talk about our love/hate relationships with lawns. Valentine love letters. Since yours truly has 60 photos in the book I have a few things to[...]
Our loyal readers know “Picture This” has been a popular Gardening Gone Wild photo contest over the years, where we invite professional garden photographers to pick a theme and hand out awards. It has been a great way for readers to learn together and link their contest photo in their own blogs to the GGW[...]
Winter is the time to catch up on all the photography editing and post production from during the past year. Or in the case of this sequence of photos, from years ago. While I was working on the American Meadow Garden book, now 4.5 years ago, I stopped by Scott Arboretum at Swarthmore College in[...]