I am on the road, photographing California native plants, and just too dang busy to think about anything else. My post will just be a “best of” selection from a presentation I gave at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. So here is a portfolio selection of great gardens using California natives. For those of you in [...]
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Finding Photos
March 17, 2016 – Posted in: Garden PhotographyIt is a great joy to be hunting for photographs in a garden. Having a camera in hand (or on a tripod) is an excuse to look carefully, to find a photo that will do justice to the beauty of plants. Finding a photo is a deliberate process and I frequently find myself looking for color [...]
Gardens Here ?
February 26, 2016 – Posted in: Garden Photography, Garden PlantsHere in California, there have been some rumblings about gardens wasting water. Can we afford water for gardens in an era of limited resources? Isn’t our native habitat beautiful enough? Do we want to have gardens here? Well of course, I am biased. I am a gardener. And yes, we certainly do want to have [...]
Gardens are Art
January 27, 2016 – Posted in: Garden Musings, Garden PhotographyNo doubt if you are reading this you know that gardening is an art. And, as is often true with art, one form inspires another. A recent stroll in the University of California Berkeley Botanical Garden brought so much of this together. Art appreciation is something we do every time we visit a museum, go to [...]
Photographing Roses
November 11, 2015 – Posted in: Garden PhotographyI am starting a new book; The PhotoBotanic Guide to Photographing Roses. And just like my other e-books, the readers of Gardening Gone Wild are the guinea pigs, err, I mean get to read it here first. The book begins with photographing roses in garden: Working in the Garden. Later chapters will talk about photographing [...]