A full garden photography gallery is now online on my main website. If you love your gardens and photography then I’m sure you will not be disappointed.
Please check it out by clicking here
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Category: Photography
Garden Photography Award
Pleased to be working with the gardeners at Le Manoir, in Oxfordshire for the next 12 month and shooting the changing gardens through the seasons. On my first visit I took this image of some cherry blossom which scooped 3rd place in the Professional Garden Photographers Association monthly competition last month.
Keep posted for some more images from Le Manoir throughout the year!
Frosty Hellebore
Pleased to have just won third place in the PGPA image of the month with this image of a frosty Hellebore taken last month. Hoping for another cold snap to get some more frosty images before Spring appears.
Wisteria Hysteria
A client called me one afternoon to tell me the wisteria outside his workshop was looking its best. It took me just 15 minutes to get to his workshop and in that time someone had parked right outside the workshop infront of the wisteria. We tried a few addresses on the road to see if we could ask them to move their car for a few minutes but couldn’t track them down. We think they parked there and caught a bus into Oxford for the afternoon! Still on a positive note perhaps it adds to the image showing the length and sheer size of this wisteria! Allegedly this is the oldest wisteria in Oxfordshire.
Orchids in the Chilterns
I am lucky to have a client with wildflower meadows, woodland and SSSI areas in the Chilterns. This sumer he asked me to record the wild orchids that grow on his land.
Here are a few of my favourite images. These are all tiny flower heads so a macro lens and tripod are essential for the job and the hope of as little wind as possible due to working with such slow shutter speeds!
Bee Orchid in grasses – such beautiful detail!
Pyramidal Orchid
Butterfly Orchid
Fly Orchid
High quality floral greeting cards and limited edition fine art prints now available!
Welcome to the ‘soft launch’ of Mark Lord Photography Greeting Cards and Fine Art Prints. We are selling these high quality greeting cards  and prints at Waterperry Gardens next weekend but they are also available online now. All cards are 148mm square or A5, printed on high quality 350gsm Tintoretto Gesso paper in the UK using sustainable materials.
To see the range of cards and prints please go to the client area of our website where you will see the gallery or click here to go straight to the client area and the gallery is at the top. You cannot miss it!  http://www.marklordphotography-clientarea.com
Look for this gallery album cover!
Please share with your family and friends whom you think would enjoy the images. Thank you.
Mark
A busy bee…..
A mason bee loaded up and collecting pollen from an aster at Waterperry last September. What a lovely sight and beautiful to observe their world through a macro lens.
A lucky moment!
The herbaceous border at Waterperry Gardens looking rather splendid last year. Over 200 feet long it’s a really amazing sight from May to November and well worth a visit. It’s got to be one of the best herbaceous borders around! Here it is June time, a lovely view and a lucky moment as a black cat crossed my path!
Snake’s Head Fritillary – Plant Photography Oxfordshire
The snake’s head fritillary is Oxfordshire’s county flower, this one photographed at Waterperry Gardens in April this year. A beautiful and delicate cupped flower that grows to around 30cm in height from a bulb returning year after year. Spring certainly feels like it around the corner when these appear. I was up early one morning laying in the dew in the Fritillary meadow at Waterperry to capture this picture. A wonderful flower to photograph!
Dressed for the occasion!
Some say we grow to look like our pets, some may even grow to look like their surroundings. I photographed this lady in her garden in France whilst walking though the village where we stay. I use it on my Twitter feed @marklordphoto, it makes me smile every time I see it. Fond memories of the south of France and this colourful lady working in her garden.
The Garden Photographer 