It’s always fun when Josh Taylor comes to judge an SSCC competition. And we learn a lot, too! To kick off our new season, Josh has again agreed to judge our first open-topic competition. Many of us know Josh not only because he’s judged for the club before but also because we’ve taken workshops with him. In fact, his workshops around Brookside Gardens and especially of Brookside’s butterfly exhibit are now established institutions. His in-the-field guidance, followed by critiques at the computer indoors, have proven to be a popular education experience.

Besides Brookside, Josh has presented photography workshops at the Smithsonian National Orchid Show, US National Arboretum, US Botanic Garden, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, American Horticultural Society Garden School, Adkins Arboretum, and Longwood Gardens.

In addition to being a Canon Camera instructor, Josh speaks at camera and garden clubs, judges photographic competitions, and exhibits his photographs in gallery shows. He is a member of Garden Writers Association, National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and member and past president of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society. Josh was voted best garden club speaker in 2005.

He was also a judge for the 2009 Garden Writers Association National Media Awards and the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Nature Photography Expo. Longwood Gardens chose Josh as its Instructor of the Month (October 2010), and he was a selected photographer to assist the public at Longwood in photographing Bruce Munro’s Light: Installations (2012).

Visit Josh’s web site to see more of
his work: www.joshuataylorphotography.com.