Several weeks ago I was invited to participate in a Garden and Art Tour by giving a short talk on photographing gardens. The talk was today, and as part of prepping I went out yesterday to the Vorhees’s beautiful garden (where I would be speaking) and spent about 1.5 hours looking around and shooting. I started at the same time as my scheduled talk (4:30pm), and arguably the sun was still a little high and harsh, but I did have the good fortune of several insect and avian visitors, including this fellow who stayed put for quite a while as I walked towards him, clicking all the way.
It was very hot and humid today, so there weren’t big crowds, but I had a very engaged and enthusiastic audience who sat and watched me sweat talk about photography for about half an hour. Here’s hoping that they got something more out of it than just heat stroke :-).
The perversely curious are welcome to check out my notes for the talk. They’re ragged in places, but usable, although I doubt there’s anything there that’s new for my Flickr friends. Suggestions for additions and improvements, however, are certainly welcome.
Completists can also check out the full, unedited set of 260 photos from yesterday on my events account.
I’ll obviously try to clean and post some of the more interesting ones to my “real” Flickr account as time allows, but with only two weeks before we move to the UK, things are totally nuts here and I suspect very little of this will be attended to anytime soon. Sigh.
Thanks again to all the great photographers here on Flickr! You folks continue to both energize me and push me to raise my game. I’m sure that I wouldn’t have been asked to do this without the opportunities that Flickr has opened for me, and I’m sure my tips list and talk were full of things that I consciously and unconsciously picked up there.
