You have heard of farm to table ? Here is garden to wall. I simply could not resist making a PhotoBotanic illustration of this Iris in my garden. My studio was all set up from yesterday’s rose shoot and I wanted to practice photo stacking on a more complicated flower than a rose. Off into [...]
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Biomimicry – How Doing It Nature’s Way Will Change The Way We Live
May 3, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Design, Perennials, Sustainable GardeningThe disappearance of a major natural unit of vegetation from the face of the earth is an event worthy of causing pause and consideration by any nation. Yet so gradually has the prairie been conquered by the breaking plow, the tractor, and the overcrowded herds of man…that scant attention has been given to the significance [...]
Photos in the Garden
April 10, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Photography, Garden Photography, Garden PlantsWant a tip on how to take good garden pictures ? Pick up your camera and go out into a garden. You can’t get good pictures if you don’t take any pictures. Put yourself in a position to make something happen. April 2 was a day to take photos in my own garden. It was [...]
Get Inside the Garden
March 27, 2013 – Posted in: Garden Photography, Garden PhotographyThink Like a Gardener – Design and Shape. The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshop – Lesson 3.1 [...]
Appreciation and Mimicry
August 7, 2012 – Posted in: Garden PhotographySo far, in these lessons on garden photography, we have explored the rudiments of composition and light in making good garden photos. In today’s lesson (1.4) we step back and begin to analyze why we take pictures so that we can begin to understand when to snap the shutter. Let’s assume you are not content [...]