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Record Keeping
Taking pictures of your flower and vegetable gardens can help youkeep records of what you grew and where you grew it. Many gardenerspractice some form of crop rotation, being especially careful notto plant the same vegetables in the same location year after year.A photo or two can be a big help in keeping track of where youplanted your tomatoes the previous season. Digital photos areespecially helpful, since you can store them on your computer,label them, and click on the photo's "properties" to see exactlywhen the photo was taken. A photo might also be a good remindernext year if you planted some things too close together thisyear.

ID that Bug or Disease
The old cliche that a picture is worth a thousand words iscertainly true when it comes to identifying pests, damage frompests, or disease symptoms in the garden. One or two good photoscan be compared to photos online to identify the pest ordisease.

Send Photos to Friends
Serious gardeners enjoy sharing their garden experiences with theirgardening friends and extended family. Today's digital technologymakes it easy to capture the wonder and beauty of your garden andemail or text it to a special friend.

Garden Photographs as Art
Photos help us preserve the beauty of our gardens. Roses will fade,sunflowers will wither, and the visiting monarch butterfly will flyaway... but great photos from the garden can last a lifetime.Digital photography enables us to take lots of pictures, edit andcrop them, and print them on our computers or have them printed byprofessionals... at a fraction of the cost than we used to spendwhen all cameras had film!

Garden Photographs as Gifts
A great photo from your garden or from a friend's garden can make awonderful gift, too. Online companies can help you turn a photointo a wonderful print for framing, or your shot can be used todecorate a tee shirt or a coffee mug. With a little help fromonline companies, a collection of garden photos can be used to makea very personalized calendar. Personal computer software also makesit possible for you to make your own greeting cards from gardenphotos.

Digital Slide Shows
If you've had the opportunity to visit one of the great publicgardens in the USA, you probably took a lot of pictures. You canpost them on one of the photo-sharing websites and invite others tosee them, or you can make your own digital slide show by loadingthe images onto your personal computer, tablet, or onto a digitalpicture frame. With additional equipment, like Apple TV, you canplay the slide show through your TV.

How to Take Better Garden Photos

Equipment
By far, the two most convenient types of cameras for gardenphotography are compact digital cameras and smartphone cameras.They're easy to have on hand for that spontaneous opportunity, andyou can take multiple shots without worrying about wasting film.Digital photos are also relatively easy to edit and crop, andthey're very easy - and affordable - to share.

If you have a digital camera with interchangeable lenses, youcan be even more creative and can expand your garden photoopportunities considerably. Telephoto lenses allow you to getclose-up photos of birds and bees without scaring them away. And,telephoto lenses will allow you to narrow the depth of field ofyour photograph so that a single bloom or piece of fruit will moreclearly be highlighted.

Composition
By far, composition is the most important consideration when takinga photograph for any artistic use. Composition - the design of yourphoto - determines how the subject is framed and how other elementscan be reduced or eliminated to avoid any distraction. Many of uscan improve the composition of our photos by merely moving incloser to the central subject.

With a little practice, you can learn to compose interestingphotos by focusing on smaller elements or interesting patterns thatyou may have overlooked in the past.