Be it known that I love cookies so, alleluia!, the holidays are here. Now that I have your attention I want to talk about Christmas, not the “holidays”. I love the spirit of Christmas, the coming of Jesus. There, I have said it. I also like the wisdom of Epicurius, Lau-Tzu, and Jefferson, but now it is [...]
I have just finished a series of 16×24 photographs for an exhibition. An art buyer, working for an interior decorating firm, requested these 11 vertical photographs for a hospital patient waiting room. The request came out of the blue – I had never worked with this art buyer, and I had never printed any of [...]
I 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 [...]
Over the past 7 years of blogging here at Gardening Gone Wild as the resident garden photographer I have been giving lots of photography tips. Those who watched closely knew I was planning to put the best articles together as a book, and I am truly grateful for the encouragement. Indeed, without your encouragement I would [...]
Summer is done – and so is the photo contest. As is always the case with a photo contest, the fun is in seeing all the entries. I smiled as I opened them and each made me wonder about the gardens, wanting to see more. Indeed I was delighted to visit the blogs of those [...]