Need help on your own journey to add natives to attract wildlife? We offer visually stunning and informational presentations (including virtual), consulting for wildlife attraction and native landscape design, and photography services.
Presentations and Workshops
We love an audience that appreciates natural beauty. Is your nature, garden, photography, or civic organization interested in expanding its awareness of the nature around them?
Our presentations and are stories told through photographs as informational aids. Macro photography courses include illustrative examples. Delivery can be virtual or in person.
Workshops are available. Please inquire.
Topics include:
- Insects of all types by families or functions (like pollinators), spiders, and larger wildlife
- Native plants including benefits, how to get started, sustainability
- Nature macro photography approaches and techniques
- Residential and community habitat creation.
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Virtual courses through MN Arboretum
open to non-members
Creative Capture: Trees (Online) - Thurs, October 3, 2024
It’s those wonderful woody plants–trees and shrubs–that bring us to an arboretum. Their terrific textures, shapes, and seasonal color changes provide an infinite number of photographic opportunities for us to apply a creative touch. So how do you photograph these majestic plants? Karen will explore creative approaches ranging from landscape photography to capture their environment, portrait photography to capture structure, to macro photography to highlight flowers, leaves, fruits and bark.
Editing Essentials: Elevating Flower Images in Lightroom (Online) - Tues, November 12, 2024
Elevate your flower, plant and nature images to the next level! Editing is essential to making good photos great and there are only a few basic tools and skills needed to improve most photos. Using before and after images as examples, I'll show essential edits needed to improve flower and up close nature imagery.
The Art of Up Close: Macro Nature Photography (Online) - Wed, November 20, 2024
Join us for this picture-packed dive into the technical challenges of closeup and macro nature photography. With Karen's technical tips, field experience and approaches to overcoming outdoor challenges, you will be shooting sharp macro and close up nature shots in no time.
Editing Essentials: Removing Distractions with Photoshop (Online) - Tues, February 11, 2025
Messy nature can ruin perfectly good photographs! Plants, contrasting backgrounds, imperfections on flowers, or even photobombing insects can’t be removed while shooting, but that doesn’t mean we need to throw away otherwise fantastic shots. Using the powerful tools built into Adobe Photoshop, I'll demonstrate different approaches to removing or reducing the visual impact of undesirable distractions.
Creative Capture: Photographing Butterflies, Moths & Caterpillars (Online) - Thurs, March 6, 2025
Beautiful butterflies, magnificent moths, and colorful caterpillars are wonderfully peaceful to watch, but can be skittish photography subjects. Learning expert techniques along with understanding butterfly behavior will help you get that spectacular shot! In this webinar Karen will share her butterfly photography expertise and exquisite images.
Native Plant Consulting
Newly interested in attracting wildlife to your yard?
Already planting native and want to take it to the next level?
Gary has the knowledge, experience and resources to help you with the information and skills you need.
Gary provides expert advise and coaching for clients in addition to complete landscape designs. You can learn more about his services on his website.
Areas of Expertise:
- Wildlife attraction - adding native plants are a start, but to create a wildlife paradise you need to think about your garden differently and meet broader habitat needs
- Landscape ecology - reducing your ecological footprint while achieving an attractive and inviting yard
- Plant installation and management - as living things, plants often defy our expectations. Guidance on a successful plan to transform and maintain your yard.
Photography
We hope you enjoy our Galleries.
This is a small sampling of the tens of thousands of images of wildlife and botanicals we have in our catalog.
Interested in a fine art piece for your wall or digital / print publishing?
Karen is available for photography assignments.
Contact us with your interest.