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\nSeveral weeks ago I was invited to participate in a Garden and Art Tour<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

It was very<\/em> 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<\/strike> talk about photography for about half an hour. Here’s hoping that they got something more out of it than just heat stroke :-).<\/p>\n

The perversely curious are welcome to check out my notes for the talk<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

Completists can also check out the full, unedited set of 260 photos<\/a> from yesterday on my events account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll obviously try to clean and post some of the more interesting ones to my “real” Flickr account<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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