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December 30, 2009

Red, green and blue

Photographer David Perry has issued a modest challenge to the garden photographers under his tutelage:

Red, green and blue.

Take pictures focusing on each of these three colors. Not on shape or content or beauty. Just color.

Perry, who lives in Seattle, is a superb photographer who finds healing and calmness in the garden, and his photographs reflect the deep respect he has for that space.

(For a look at "red" and "green," keep reading.)

He claims no gardening expertise, but his blog, A Photographers Garden Blog, is a tribute to what he calls his "blue-collar love affair with gardening."

He says of his garden photography lessons that they are "a bit of shared expertise in the art of actively seeing ...and then capturing what one sees."

David Perry may still be a student in the garden, but he is a wonderful teacher behind the lens. Take a look at his work, and the work his "students" have posted on his blog.

David Perry, photographer

Posted by Susan Reimer at 8:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Categories: Garden photography

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Thanks so much for posting on this photo blog. You might imagine that I'd love it! Happy New Year.

Laura, David emailed me permission to post his photos...how generous is THAT! Take a look.--Susan

Posted by: Laura Mathews | December 30, 2009 10:46 AM

They are lovely! Very generous. The concept for teaching on line like this is very generous as well. Laura

Posted by: Laura Mathews | December 30, 2009 9:24 PM

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About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

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