It is such a relief, a release really, when I can stop my crazy production schedule and create something new. Too much of what I seem to be doing these days is looking back at old work as I put the final touches on The PhotoBotanic Garden Photography Workshops. My next post will be the [...]
I live in California. In summer I can plan a camping trip and never worry about rain. I don’t worry about my roses getting beat up in a storm and veggies love all day sun. But I need to irrigate all summer; and so does every farm and every garden – all summer. It doesn’t [...]
Whenever I do photography workshops I visit the garden just before to get a head start on what the students will see. So it was with great delight I recently visited UC Berkeley Botanical Garden. My workshop is from my new PhotoBotanic Garden Photography e-book, the lesson on Composition and Balance, and I needed to see [...]
This will be a bit of a challenge. Photos are supposed to tell a story, so I present a series of photos without comment. The set up: I was in Hoyt Arboretum in Portland, Oregon looking to add two photos into my lecture “Finding the Photo”. I always try to add photos that are current and [...]
A new rose takes years to reach the market. The process of breeding, testing, analyzing, selecting, and then propagating enough to sell, and then marketing, all have timetables. The rose above that I photographed for Star Roses two years ago with no name, is now being released. When I was asked to photograph this rose, all [...]