The Art of Transparency
Ansel Adams wrote that once he had mastered photography of the grand landscape, he “gained the freedom to see with more sensitive eyes the full landscape of our environment, a landscape that included scissors and thread, grains of sand, leaf details, the human face, and a single rose.” From my viewpoint, the entire universe can be encompassed by tiny objects, and there is as much to study in small things as in large things, inside as well as outside.
In the previous part of Creative Garden Photography, I explored techniques for photography of gardens writ large. In this part, photographic subjects get smaller: We look at the world close-up and personal, and explore techniques for bringing the outside garden inside. To ...
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