Landscape Architectural Photography
Parks, plazas, campuses, and the grounds of larger building projects, for landscape architects across the Midwest.
Energizer Park — Landscape Architect: DG2 Design — St. Louis MO
The photography of landscape architecture is a subgenre of a subgenre, distinct from photographing buildings exclusively and distinct from scenic landscape work. I think it is more difficult to photograph well than building architecture, and the main difference is time. A building looks finished the day it opens. Plantings need a season or more to read the way they were intended, and the right frame often depends on a narrow window of growth and light that may not coincide with the window that flatters the architecture. It often doesn't. I try to plan around that, returning across the season when a project calls for it rather than shooting once at completion and ignoring the state of the ground.
