Double Feature
The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California may be closed while we shelter in place, but I am looking forward very much to the double feature coming soon: The Death…
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March 27, 2020
Shopping in the Time of the Coronavirus
Shopping in the time of the Coronavirus starts with questions. How safe is it to go shopping? What is the risk-reward profile? Where are we on the curve of the…
March 26, 2020
Love in the Time of the Coronavirus
Two of the best books I know that involve pandemics are the well-known classics Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the…
March 25, 2020
Reviving my ‘Zombie’ YouTube Channel
My YouTube Channel rises from the ashes. Thanks to my family helping (I'm watching Katie, my youngest, develop into one great project manager with great pride!) and sheltering in place,…
March 25, 2020
Out of Chicago LIVE! Online Global Photography Conference April 24-26, 2020
NEW EVENT! Please consider joining me at the Out of Chicago LIVE! Online Global Photography Conference taking place April 24-26, 2020. Can't make it to a live photography event? This…
March 21, 2020
Abstract Expressionism and Photography
American photographer Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) used his camera to create essentially abstract expressionist imagery. In Siskind's photography, the abstract composition of shapes integrated through effective uses of positive and negative…
March 19, 2020
Towards a Ham Sandwich Theory of Art
In his cryptic and chaotic first novel V, Thomas Pynchon describes the work of a painter named Slab: Slab and Esther, uncomfortable with each other, stood in front of an…
March 17, 2020
Flower Power
Flower Power. It's hip to be square---as in the floral carpet image (below). Making space for conversations with flowers (middle image on white, bottom image an LAB L-channel inversion on…
March 14, 2020
What’s my line?
Sometimes an image is simply about a point, or a line. In this high-key image across the Bay on an overcast day, I created an image of a train bridge…
March 11, 2020
Spring Forest
This time of year there are so many wonderful flowers to photograph on my light box. Our rooms are filled with their wondrous beauty, and when I make compositions on…
March 5, 2020
Lost in the Hills
It's easily possible to get lost in the folds of the earth viewed from Zabriskie Point: visually with a camera, and practically as well if one wanders in the valleys.…
March 3, 2020
Canyonlands
Here are a few images from my recent trip to Canyonlands National Park. Canyonlands is divided in three sections by the conjunction of the Green and Colorado Rivers. The central…
March 1, 2020
Death Valley Landscapes
There are few more beautiful landscapes on this good earth than Death Valley. Here are a few images from my recent visit, with the photographs emphasizing patterns and folds in…
February 28, 2020
Chicago Botanic Garden Photography Conference Discount Code
I've recently returned from a photography conference in Yosemite Valley organized by the Out of Chicago gang. This was an incredible life experience! These guys (and gals) know how to…
February 26, 2020
Upcoming free “Photography as Poetry” presentation
I will be presenting Photography as Poetry at the Alamo Danville Artists’ Society [ADAS] on Tuesday, March 10 2020 at 7:30 PM. My presentation is free, and open to the public.…
February 24, 2020
Exciting Ride to Tower Arch
So there were four of us, or six if you count me, myself, and I: also my old friend Eric, my German friend and colleague in x-ray photographics Julian, and…
February 20, 2020
Whirlwind of Photography
Starting in Yosemite at the Out of Yosemite photo conference, we headed for Death Valley. We were in Death Valley for a few days. While there, we photographed Zabriskie Point…
February 17, 2020
Near Tehachapi
Near Tehachapi, on the main road up from Bakersfield to Mojave, I saw the light was getting good as golden hour, still early with winter long nights, quickly approached. I…
February 12, 2020