Sometimes we look at our garden successes and wonder how to photograph it. What is the essence? What makes it work? I walked down my driveway this morning where I have a mixed shrub border and once again fell in love with Ceanothus ‘Marie-Simon’. While I like this straight on photo, composed to evoke the[...]
I am oblivious to the season when I edit my photos. Often it takes me months to do the computer work and to do the fine tuning each photo requires. I confess I bring out in the photos that which I want to remember, perhaps not the way it really was; but as a gardener,[...]
It is almost July and I am only now editing my April shoot from the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Editing in the digital world is, hands down, the hardest thing about my work these days. I often shoot hundreds of photos on a shoot and spend at least two days editing for every one shooting.[...]
Pelargonium Necklaces: I didn’t mean to shock you gentle garden readers with such a shocking (oh, shocking!) introduction. But if you have followed my other photo postings from California Pack Trials you knew this was coming. .1 post The marketing of plants is no different than anything else these days I suppose, it just doesn’t[...]
Where did I leave off ? My last posting California Pack Trials .1 ended with observations of how plants are marketed to the younger generation. I think it was this: