2022 Photographing Flowers for Transparency with Harold Davis (Weekend Workshop) | LIVE and IN-PERSON Master photographer Harold Davis is well-known for his often imitated—but seldom equaled—digital images of luscious transparent…
It's possible to read this image from inside a cave on Iceland's southern coast in two ways, depending on how your eye responds to the positive and negative spaces in…
Broccoli that we enjoy on our tables is the blossom of a flowering plant, and this is nowhere more apparent than with Romanesco Broccoli, shown in extreme close-up below. The…
Photographing through glass on a light box is one of my favorite photographic pastimes. You can see an album of some of my glass work by clicking here. One of…
A simple Dandelion contains a world, in a sense a fractal world, as each node in the outer Dandelion world reveals its own world within if you get close enough.…
Riding in a bus is not always exalted or exalting, but it does leave one time for conversation and for looking out the window. In my case, on my recent…
My new, upcoming book Composition & Photography: Creating Structure Using Forms and Patterns is now available for pre-order from Amazon. I am very excited about this title, which will be…
Does size really matter? Sometimes smaller is better, as I think is the case with these two light box compositions. Both are based around a lattice of small viola blossoms,…
ICM---in camera motion---is a technique used to add interpretive aesthetics to an image by moving the camera during exposure while the shutter is open. Generally, the effect created is impressionistic.…
This photograph shows the Carpellary receptacle of a Lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera. The Lotus is a sacred flower in both Hinduism and Buddhism. I photographed this Lotus in a small…
The Cymbidium Orchid image is a reprocess of a 2016 light box image, with a background texture added at the behest of a client. The Cymbidium grows outdoors in our…
Recently I've been thinking about black and white photography. One context is the landscape of Iceland, and the relative appropriateness of color and monochrome. A comparison of black & white…
There's something about the wild and stark landscapes of Iceland that compel me towards monochrome. Oh, there's plenty of color in Iceland, depending on the time and place (as examples…
Photographed with my iPhone 12 on a walk around my neighborhood...Succulents!
I photographed this Hollyhock (Alcea rosea) blossom from our garden on a light box. The blossom was positioned upright with an improvised holder constructed from paperclips, tape, and an empty…
While I was in Iceland, Phyllis was not idle. With four kids at home, this should go without saying. But she also found time to catch up with our webinar…
It is bittersweet to say farewell to a destination as lovely and memorable as Iceland. But it is good to be home, and I have many images from our time…
In the bitter-cold winter of 1477, a foreigner stayed for a while at the community around the site of this church at the tip of Iceland's rugged Snaefells peninsula. The…