Gardens Revisited
The need to complete the image list on a new book offered Linda and I the opportunity to shoot in two gardens that for one reason or another we had not visited in recent years. Owned and cared for by Cyrus and Louise Hyde, the Wellsweep Herb Farm is located near Hackettstown in Northwestern NJ. [...]
Lighting Surprises
How many times have you heard that the photographer’s ‘golden hours’ for shooting are the first hour after sunrise and the last hour before sunset? No matter where you are or what you are shooting, this light presents more opportunities than any other time of the day for those ‘AHHHHH’ images. Am I saying that [...]
For Fun Part 2
By and large horizontal images tend to be more mellow and soothing while vertical images are more rigid. The last post had me trying to make the horizontal image more vibrant while this weeks post would be a vertical image and more mellow. I was working inside a Japanes maple with a zoom lens on [...]
Just for Fun – Part 1
As photographers we spend our time behind the camera looking for scenes that seem to ‘fall in place’. We look for compositon that works. The ever famous ‘leading line’, ‘rule of thirds’ and ‘S’ curve are touted over and over. But what about getting an image of one of the composition giants where it was [...]
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The first weekend this month, I taught a Master Photography workshop with my friend Roger Foley at Chanticleer Garden in Wayne, Pa. Our schedule called for presentations and lectures on Friday night, a two hour shooting session in the garden early Saturday morning and again Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. In between the photography sessions, [...]
Point & Shoots
The Mohonk Mountain House, located just outside of New Paltz, NY, celebrated its 74th Garden Holiday week this year. Held the week before Labor Day, Linda and I were asked to return for the sixth time to do an evening keynote presentation and a morning garden walk. Over the years that we have been part [...]
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 [...]
Portfolios?????
‘What images should I include?’ ‘What are you looking to see in my images?’ ‘I see you ask for 6-12 images. Should I try for twelve or will six be enough?’ ‘Do you want landscapes, macro or something in between?’ ‘Should I only include garden images?’ This fall is the fifth Master Photography workshop weekend [...]
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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