Parks & Gardens
“If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete.”
Photographing gardens is unexpectedly challenging. It is incredibly complicated to capture the experience of being there. A beginner photographer may think of a garden as static: it’s all right there in front of you, and it’s not going anywhere.
A still life, a garden, most definitely is not. It is a very dynamic environment. A garden’s entire mood can change while you're swapping out your camera's batteries. A garden is not just what you see. It is also what you smell, what you hear, and what you think. How do you capture all that in a photo?
Sometimes friends who accompanied me on a garden photoshoot tell me that my photographs look nothing like theirs but somehow feel precisely like what they remember seeing, which is the best compliment I can expect.
