GGW Picture This Contest News

– Posted in: Garden Photography

Good news, Picture This fans: you now have extra time to get ready for our next theme: Macro in a Mason Jar, judged by photographer and fellow blogger David Perry. Instead of running the contest in November, we’re going to hold it in January. So, if you haven’t had time to experiment with the technique[...]

The Photo Workshop

– Posted in: Garden Photography
student studying lines in the succulent garden

I have really been having fun learning how to run the garden photography workshops at San Francisco Botanical Garden.  Each class has become a lesson on one particular theme. You too can learn, by giving yourself an assignment, something to work on – and just do it.  For instance “focal points”.  Here, at SFBG we[...]

Picture This Reminder for October 2010

– Posted in: Garden Photography

A reminder to all of you procrastinators (or for those of you are sitting on the sidelines) that the deadline for this month’s Picture This Photo Contest is only a few days away. The theme is ‘fall on a flatbed scanner’; Nan learned about this technique from Craig Cramer of Ellis Hollow who is our[...]

Cover Photo

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Stonecrop, Sedum spectabile 'Neon'

When the current issue of The American Gardener from the American Horticultural Society arrived I immediately read about my friend Neil Diboll of Prairie Nursery fame and saw the You Tube interview.  And then a nice story by Duncan Brine about naturalistic gardening.  With apologies to fellow GG Wild blogger Debra Lee Baldwin, I did[...]