Up about three hundred claustrophobic steps in a narrow, winding staircase lies the gallery around the exterior of the dome of the Basilica of Sacre Coeur in Montmartre. This place…
The Chateau de Nazelles is located a few miles from Amboise in the Loire Valley. Built by some of the same craftsmen that constructed Chenonceau Chateau, today it is a…
Reviled when it was built as a fun house rocket ship and aesthetic monstrosity, it's amazing how the Tour Eiffel in fact manifests visual grace with decorative flourishes and curls…
Yesterday we celebrated Katie's fifth birthday with parties at Step One (her preschool) and at home. Katie Rose is a charming, wonderful little girl---and living proof that there are miracles.…
Across the street from the hotel and down the block, Au Sauvignon, a modest brasserie offered simple food and seats to watch the world go by. In the back, these…
At night, the area under the Eiffel Tower turns into an exciting display of lights, colors and people---as you can see in this iPhone shot of this small carousel in…
Here we are after a very satisfying session photographing Monet's famous gardens at Giverny. The happy but tired group is shown sitting on the steps of Claude Monet's house. Thanks…
Andre Le Notre is the Frederick Law Olmsted of France. Like Olmsted, Le Notre is the essential landscape designer of his country. In Olmsted's case, much of the inspiration came…
San Sulpice is a marvelous, unfinished baroque church. It's a few blocks from the Paris hotel my workshop group is staying in. The interior of this church was in an…
I am staying around the corner from the Luxembourg Gardens, a fun place to photograph with its harmonious straight lines of trees and flowers in their springtime bloom. This is…
The Opera Garnier in Paris is baroque and magnificent. It's mostly not used for opera any more as they've built a modern opera house (I've heard, however, from several people…
Paris is often called the "City of Light"---perhaps it should also be called the City of Lights. Plural. As in many. You can see in this photo that everything is…
Amazing that one can leave San Francisco and in one day be photographing in Paris! This is a view of the Seine River from the Ile St Louis in the…
The simple pleasures of waterdrop photography can be entrancing, and there is often ample complexity close to home, as in this composition of a waterdrop on a leaf, piggyback on…
I wanted to touch base before I leave for France on Sunday. As you likely know, I will be leading a photography workshop in Paris. This is one of my…
What happens when a photo is a file that languishes in a folder? It may be a little like the tree falling in the forest without recognition. Here are some…
Up at Step One, Amber face-painted all the pre-schoolers. Our Katie Rose became a tiger---not inappropriate for someone born with her fierce life force and will to survive. She's also very sweet,…
Last week I spent some time wandering on Point Reyes with my oldest son Julian (he was off from school for the week). The land and sea were swept by…