I didn’t expect to be taking garden photos when I visited my daughter in New York City, where she lives in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area – a “transitional” section of Brooklyn. But for years Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been sponsoring The Greenest Street in Brooklyn as a neighborhood beautification program and it’s inspiring. My camera phone[...]
How to create soft light for photos
– Posted in: Garden Photography June 26, 2015The best time for garden photography is the soft light of early morning after dawn, or late afternoon at dusk. However that is not always possible, especially if you are visiting a public garden. I wrote a post here a couple years ago “Photos on the Road” about a trip to Norfolk Botanic Garden when[...]
Spring Photo Contest Winners
– Posted in: Garden Photography June 10, 2015The entries are in and we have a winner ! Congratulations to Grace at eTilth for the photo of Erythroniums tucked by this urn in the Dunn Garden in Seattle. As a new feature for our contest, have put all the entries into a flickr Album and offered critiques of each, showing my before and after suggestions[...]
How to Win a Photo Contest
– Posted in: Garden Photography May 27, 2015Garden photographer, Saxon Holt, gives 6 tips on how to photograph gardens for a garden photography contest at Gardening Gone Wild[...]
Picture This – Spring Photo Contest
– Posted in: Garden Photography May 11, 2015Picture This, our garden blogger’s photo showcase, is ready for another contest – now that spring has finally arrived throughout the land. I was in Delaware just two weeks ago where I photographed Wintherthur, the trees just leafing out, seemingly while I watched, so by now even the most northern garden photographers should have plenty of inspiration.