Garden Pictures
Here are a few tips for taking great pictures you might find useful and interesting.
Consider moving closer and closer to your subject - taking a picture at every step - so you have a series of pictures from far away and closer and closer on a unique feature of the scene or plant. This encourages you to "see" the image in different ways and each picture is a decsion about what is important in the scene. And you also avoid the "none of the above" syndrome when the picture isn't a closeup and it isn't a landscape scene but something vague in the middle.
Consider taking pictures 2 hours after sunrise and 2 hours before sunset as your primary time for garden photography. The sunlight is the best then for flowr pics and the worst at high noon when the sun is very intense. Flowers look best in lots of light but nothing direct and intense
Play a game with yourself. Look at a garden scene or a part of a garden scene. Imagine a group of people, an event or individual and try to take a picture to express those things. Pictures with a sense of purpose always come out better than a random shot taken because it looks "pretty". Turn a group of flowers into a political meeting - turn a rose (or a closeup of it) into a loved one and try to imagine which part of that rose (flowers or thorns or ?) best typifies that person. :-=)
Oh - and a fourth - have fun with taking pictures. :-) I love to take before and after pics of my gardens over a few years because it reminds me how much work I've done on my gardens. And how far I've come. You'll have your own reasons but do enjoy the memories you create.
Special Garden Picture Pages
These pages are pictures I've uploaded as well as my invitation to visitors to upload their own pictures.
Rudbeckia 'Indian Summer'
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