Well, here we go. Join me here as the book unfolds. The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop is being written one post at a time – starting here. Long time readers of Gardening Gone Wild will know I have been writing about garden photography for almost 5 years. Now its time for a book, an e-book[...]
Native plant gardens tend to be hard to photograph. Often the gardeners care more about the plants and habitat than the aesthetics. This is perfectly OK – unless you are trying to photograph them. We need better photographs of native plant gardens to encourage those gardeners who DO care about aesthetics, who want to do[...]
Got your attention ? Escaping dinosaur at San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers ? Is this Gardening Gone Wild ?!
“Why, when stabilization is built into many cameras and lenses, is a tripod so important ?” asked a student at a recent workshop. I always ask my students to bring tripods to our photography workshops and stabilization is not the main reason. It is true that a good tripod will provide a rock solid, steady[...]
A garden photograph is not simply a landscape photo taken in a garden. It should communicate something about gardening, something that enlarges the viewer’s understanding and appreciation of gardens. This photo of fresh emerging, nearly chartreuse foliage of Rhododendron hyperythrum is a fine landscape photo, a nice leaf pattern with a sense of vibrant young leaves unfolding,[...]