Oddities
In common with many photographers, I like to collect visual oddities. Yellow Stanchion, below, is odd because of the prosaic foreground subject contrasted with the almost elegiac background of the…
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July 28, 2021
Gullfoss Rift
An unusual feature of the famous and spectacular Gullfoss waterfall is that the water flow makes an almost immediate 90 degree turn to the left at the bottom of the…
July 27, 2021
Godafoss
Godafoss---"Waterfall of the Gods"---is one of the largest and most visited waterfalls in Iceland. It is shown here at sunset (maybe midnight at this time of year!) from above. The…
July 25, 2021
The Windows on the Beast
We call our bus on the Iceland circumnavigation "the Beast"---because the wheels are unimaginably high, the 4-wheel drive is potent, it bounces with a hard suspension, and it is red.…
July 16, 2021
Coming into Iceland
Coming into Iceland after a long-haul overnight flight, the land near the airport looked flat and green as a steady mist fell. Talking the shuttle bus in from the airport,…
July 12, 2021
Fire and Ice, Sunflowers and Poppy Pods
I'm off to Iceland in a few days, and very excited about the adventure. I do find that my packing and travel preparation jujitsu has somewhat atrophied over the pandemic…
July 6, 2021
Running Photoshop 2021 in Emulation Mode on a Mac M1
I don't these days write much about computers, and I also like to say (when asked) that the only software I have written in the last decade is my LAB…
July 3, 2021
Have you ever seen a poppy seed up really close and personal?
By way of background, check out Poppy Dancer and All Along the Watchtowers and the Papapver pod bouquet in Recent Images. Looking at the close-up of the top of a…
June 29, 2021
Poppy Dancer and All Along the Watchtowers
Lately, I've been photographing poppy pods, dried poppies from our garden. In a few instances, these remains-of-the-day poppies look like fantastic figurines, as in Poppy Dancer, immediately below. For me,…
June 27, 2021
Recent Images
I'm pleased with my images from the last week or so, and am having trouble keeping up with my photography in post-production, and also as a blogger. But here are…
June 25, 2021
The Blossfeldt Effect webinar video recording
We've posted The Blossfeldt Effect video webinar recording. Here's the description: In this unique and creative webinar, Harold starts with a look at the characteristics of a Blossfeldian composition. What…
June 21, 2021
A white poppy and a mandala
Please keep in mind our in-person Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop the weekend of September 25-26 located in Berkeley, California. There's a $200 early-bird discount until the end of June.…
June 17, 2021
Some blasts from the past!
Some blasts from the past: A back staircase in the Fine Arts Museum in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon, 2017) above; geometric patterns in the arches, shadows, reflections of the…
June 12, 2021
The Blossfeldt Effect Webinar coming up on Saturday June 12
Karl Blossfeldt (1866-1932) began his career at a decorative ironwork manufacturer. He was assigned the task of creating reference botanical photographs to use for wrought iron designs. Eventually, his iconic…
June 8, 2021
Some flowers from our garden
Click here for our upcoming (September) Photographing Flowers for Transparency in-person workshop!
June 4, 2021
Splitting up my Long Exposure Waves workshop
I've been contemplating a Long Exposure Waves workshop, and trying to see where this would fit into my schedule. My idea has been to combine a webinar prep session with…
June 1, 2021