Strategies for shooing
Botanical Gardens
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lower photography is a natural extension of Spring, and nowhere is this more rewarding than in botanical gardens. In one location, there are dozens of varieties of colorful and exotic flowers often planted with great artistry. It’s almost as if the gardeners had photographers in mind. It’s easy to take scores of great pictures in a very short time. I’ve photographed world-class gardens all over the world, from Butchart Gardens in British Columbia, Canada, to the Denver Botanical Gardens, and from Garden by the Bay
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in Singapore to Keukenhof Gardens in Holland, and they always are a delight to experience and photograph. You can spend many hours or even days there. The strategy World class floral designs bring world class crowds! The average number of visitors to Keukenhof Gardens from mid-to-late April, for example, is 25,500 people per day, and there are four peak days where an astonish-
