Photographing the garden
Don’t forget close-ups. The best way to photograph a garden is to experience it through the camera the way you experience it with your eyes. You stand back and take a look around, you walk up to a plant and look closely at its individual flowers, you bend down to turn a leaf over and you stand up and look around again. Take photographs the same way and the viewer will feel like they are experiencing the garden more fully.
Include people, animals and architecture. Remember that gardens are human creations. Very few of us have a garden that looks anything like the way plants grow in the wild. The best photographs of a garden are the ones that acknowledge that reality. Photograph your family and friends in the garden, include your pets, and don’t edit out doorways, patios and tool sheds. It’s all part of how we live among plants — and that’s what garden photographs should capture.
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