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 [...]
I am supposed to editing all the photos I took of gardens while I was in Minnesota working with Evelyn Hadden on her “Lose Your Lawn” book. But I just can’t get those prairies off my mind. I do promise to bring this post back around to garden photography at the end. This is [...]
Just back from Minnesota where I was shooting for a new book with fellow Lawn Reform Coalition member Evelyn Hadden, and spent my free time looking for prairies. OMG! OMG, O-M-G . . . The Crow-Hassan Park Reserve is part of Three Rivers Park District, a regional park for the Minneapolis area. I did not [...]
I am a light stalker with my camera. Finding the best time and the best light to photograph a garden factors into every shoot. These days I am challenging myself to bring sunlight into my photographs. Whenever I give presentations and workshops, I always talk about light – about soft light versus hard light. The [...]
Text and photos © Catherine Renzi Many September gardens are waning, preparing for dormancy after festive summer partying with exciting colors and fragrances. But, September is also a time of new beginnings; Autumn begins in September, and a new academic year begins for students of all ages. For me, each year begins anew with my [...]