Long time readers of this blog may remember when Saxon Holt wrote about hardy succulents way back in 2009. In that post, he talked about the challenges of choosing photos for a gardening book that will have a national audience. Today he shares some tips about photographing ornamental grasses. It's part of a blog tour [...]
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Katinka Matson: A new twist on botanical images
April 5, 2007 – Posted in: Flowers on the BrainKatinka Matson does not photograph flowers--she scans them. I don't know how she manages to not flatten them, or how she gets a black background, but they look almost three dimensional, and the colors are exceptionally vibrant. Besides the front page, check out the artist's bio page (which has an explanation of her technique) and [...]
Photo credits for Cold Climate Gardening website header images
March 9, 2007 – Posted in: About this site, Blogging Art and PracticeSome photos are more interesting when cropped severely So many people expressed admiration for the header images that I decided to put them in the Cold Climate Gardening Flickr pool. You can view them here. It is a challenge to find images that are still interesting once you cut them down to 780x140 pixels. On [...]
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