Late Winter Early Spring
When the plants are great, the lighting conditions perfect and everything falls in place, all else gets pushed back – including blog posts! In spite of the recent unpredictible weather changes, I was able to get outside and do some shooting. This is the time of year where there are opportunities for late winter images [...]
Naples Sunset
Every town on the water with a long pier or good viewing area facing West seems to have a ‘happening’ – crowds that gather every night to see beautiful sunsets. Naples, Florida is no exception. In fact, at the Saturday art show in town, every photographer had at least one print of the Naples Pier [...]
Right Time, Right Place + Luck
In early February, Linda and I escaped to Naples, Florida to visit my sister and brother-in-law. Our plan was to spend a week visitng family in the area and do some exploring. A few days before departing, my sister called and asked if we would like to visit Corkscrew Swamp. Yes, yes, yes, yes ,yes! [...]
Color to Match
Linda placed some poinsettias around the house for the holidays. One sunny but cold day, I decided to shoot some of the plants in order to keep cabin fever at bay. Three of the best plants were in the sunroom backlit with the early morning light. I set up the 70-200 zoom and clicked off [...]
Digital , Digital , Digital
We finished up (until further notice) all the projects our landscape architects and designers assigned us this season. As I was reviewing the images I realized that many would not have been attempted or even possible if we were still shooting film. For example, when we have a swiming pool involved, we had to get [...]
Lower angle = more reflection
This is the time of the year when we are busy completing the list of gardens that our landscape architects and designers have asked us to photograph. Many of the properties feature swimming pools. It is important, if possible, for at least one of the images to show the relationship of the pool to the [...]
Just Keep Shooting
So there I am in my brightly colored cycling clothes (spandex) getting the bike out of the garage. I turn around and the late afternoon sunlight is just leaving the Helenium by the driveway. The bees, however, are still busy collecting nectar. With so much image potential, the bike ride can wait. I set up [...]
Focus, focus, focus ?????
When students have trouble achieving critical focus, I often suggest they bracket their focus points. This is especially true for macro work where getting the depth of field in the right area can seem to be an act of faith. There are also other times where it pays to play with the focus point. Today’s [...]
The Little Things
For the past few weeks we have been trying to photograph a number of gardens for our landscape and garden designers. And, if we didn’t have rain almost every day we might be well on our way to completing those assignments. We get rain and just when the gardens start to dry out, we get [...]
The Hand Dealt
We are just getting caught up from a twelve hour drive to Indianapolis to do a Garden Writers Photography workshop at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and then, after two days at home, a trip to Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia. I did some shooting on both trips – early in the morning at the [...]
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