Our Best Garden Photos of 2016
November 7, 2016

I love gardening, and I also love taking pictures. Publishing Senior Gardening allows me to combine both avocations. Most of the photos below have appeared somewhere on Senior Gardening during the last year.

My favorite shot of the year turned out to be of a couple of Earliest Red Sweet peppers. It seemed that all of our peppers that ripened late in the season had far deeper colors than those we picked in July and August. The endangered Earliest Red Sweet variety continued to produce lots of beautiful, small red peppers well into November.

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All photos on this page are copyrighted, but may be used for desktop photos without permission or payment. All other use requires prior consent, massive royalty payments, your left pinkie finger... (Actually, I'm a pretty soft touch on non-commercial use of my photos, especially for educators. Just , please.)

I do turn the camera for vertical shots sometimes.

Gloxinias

While certainly not a garden crop, we work with our gloxinias all year round.

Photo Gear

I made what for me is a major change in photo equipment in 2016, buying a new Canon T5i camera body. While very similar to my previous main camera, a Canon Digital Rebel XSi, I have noticed some improvement in the quality of the photos I take. The new camera body completes a changeover from my original, good camera gear. I had equipped the XSi with a Canon EF-S 17-85mm zoom lens as my normal lens. After over 30,000 shots, the lens suffered an electronics failure. (It's now repaired and being used by one of our daughters.) I replaced the failed lens with Canon's newer version of it, an EF-S 15-85mm.

The Canon Digital Rebel (EOS) series really isn't part of Canon's professional camera lineup, but the cameras have proved to be good enough for my photo needs. I used the old XSi camera body with its normal lens to take the photo at right.

Following my usual money saving practice with both cameras and computers, I bought the T5i after Canon had released the T6 Digital Rebel series at a considerable cost savings over their latest and greatest.

Related pages:

• Best Garden Photos of 2012
• Best Garden Photos of 2013
• Best Garden Photos of 2014
• Best Garden Photos of 2015
• Best Garden Photos of 2017
• Best Garden Photos of 2018
• Best Garden Photos of 2019
• Best Garden Photos of 2020
• Best Garden Photos of 2021
• Best Garden Photos of 2022
• Best Garden Photos of 2023
• Gloxinia Photos
• Flowers in the Senior Garden
• Desktop Photos
• Desktop Photos 2
• Desktop Photos: The Cutting Room Floor

From Steve Wood, the at Senior Gardening