For this month’s Picture This Photo Contest, the subject is containers. And Steve Silk, the master of creating magnificent containers, is our judge. These are Steve’s comments on how he’ll be judging photos: “I’ll be looking for a picture that is well-composed and well-lit with a clean background, of course, but also one that has many of the [...]
Now being empty nesters, my wife Mary and I took off on Easter Sunday with our dog Sandy for a day trip to Bear Valley in Colusa County, California, about 2 hours north of San Francisco. I sent a web gallery of photos to some friends and got such an overwhelming response I wanted to [...]
As we get this first month of GGW’s Picture This Photography Contest under our belts, we are learning as we go. So, here are the final revisions and rules. 1. The deadline will now be through Friday, April 24th. So, if you haven’t yet entered, it’s not too late! 2. When first posted, Saxon had asked [...]
We understand that the subject and rules for Picture This, the new GGW photography contest, were a little puzzling to some. So, we’ve made a few changes that we think will make it much easier for all of you to participate. 1. First, the theme for this month has been broadened to include native plants that are indigenous to [...]
We’re trying something new here at Gardening Gone Wild – a photo contest that will be a bit of a collective group visualization. For this contest, I will pick a subject and ask you, our fellow bloggers, to picture your own interpretation of the subject and send me a photograph. I will gather and post all of the photos in a [...]