Last month, while our Gardening Gone Wild readers were out shooting for the Fill the Frame theme in our Picture This photo contest, I was on vacation in New England – I was filling my camera frame with fall color in Vermont and the landscapes of poet Mary Oliver in Cape Cod, such as Blackwater[...]
Since I am the judge this month for our Picture This contest, I am taking the opportunity to expand on my theme – Fill the Frame. Link to contest entry rules and previous post. Whether or not you intend to contribute a photo to the contest or just want to take stronger photos you[...]
Hidden in the Oregon Woods Moss Man surveys Beth’s garden
Now that September has arrived I start looking at the grasses. Or rather, they grab me. Grasses grab the light and reveal the sun. They dance in the wind; they rustle and whisper. By this time of the year their flowers have become seed heads beckoning the birds. With such dynamic inspiration on so many[...]
When I attended the California Spring Trials this past April I ran into fellow photographers Ramon van der Reijden and Ted Langeveld of the Visions Pictures photo agency in Netherlands. In my previous post about the Trials I mentioned the phototographer’s challenge – each of us would photograph the same flower and see what we come[...]