The Artful Garden
with Lev L. Spiro
April 29 – May 16, 2025
Course Description
Learn exciting new ways to bring your garden photography to the next level with this three-week online workshop led by award-winning fine-art photographer and filmmaker Lev L. Spiro. Story and emotion are the keys to Lev’s impassioned approach to the natural world in your garden and beyond, as he guides you to harness not only light, focus, and composition, but also embrace gesture, metaphor, ambiguity, and narrative, to create meaning and forge powerful connections between your work and the viewer.
You discover new techniques to tell story through the use of motion and perspective and broaden your understanding of how to best employ different types of light, focus, and composition. Along the way we learn about conceptual and intuitive approaches to photography and how to benefit from each, how to work a subject, and we are inspired by Lev’s presentations on both classic and contemporary photographers of the genre. Lev gently encourages you to experiment, embrace mistakes and learn from them, and expand your photographic and artistic vocabulary.
Whether you want to create botanical fine art pieces or simply make your garden images more unusual, compelling, and delightful, Lev presents you with the tools to move beyond simple representation of a subject so that your work truly embodies artistic and creative vision. Your garden photography will never be the same!
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
What You Should Know:
Working knowledge of digital workflow and manual mode on your digital SLR or mirrorless camera. Participants must be able to download and select images using image editing software for class sessions.
Special Notes:
Class will meet 12:30 – 2:30 pm (Mountain Time) on Tuesdays and Fridays starting April 29 and ending May 16 (six online group sessions). Enrollment is limited to 12 participants.
Zoom Video Conferencing software (available for no charge from Zoom.com) will be used to facilitate the class sessions. Further details will be emailed to registrants.
Santa Fe Workshops always aims to produce a high-quality experience for our online attendees. That said, variables including regional and local internet provider speeds, traffic on Zoom's servers, and your own computing hardware can contribute to a less than ideal streaming event. While we do our best to minimize the impact of these variables, they are outside the control of Santa Fe Workshops.
Policies:
View Withdrawal and Transfer Policies for online programs.
For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.
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Lev L. Spiro is an award-winning fine art photographer and filmmaker with 40 years experience creating film and photography, as well as guiding and eliciting creative work from other artists. His photographic work has been juried into more than 60 exhibitions, including the A. Smith Gallery, Ph21 Gallery, Praxis Gallery, PhotoPlace Gallery and the Southeast Center for Photography, as well as published as featured portfolios in Dodho Magazine, Shadow & Light Magazine, All About Photo Magazine, Black + White UK, and Art Ascent Magazine (Gold Artist, June 2021; Silver Artist July 2023).
Lev is also well known for his work directing over 160 television episodes, pilots, and features, including series such as Orange is the New Black, Modern Family, Weeds, and Arrested Development. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and two dogs, who often accompany him and make helpful suggestions as he creates images.
Website: levlspiro.com
Instagram: @llspiro
