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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
The wind was kicking up dust devils as we neared the old mining town of Trona, east of the Sierra in California, and en route to Death Valley. These train…
I am en route from the Out of Yosemite photography conference to Death Valley for a few days of photography. The conference was hectic busy but great fun to be…
I got these tulips when they were nearly unopened, sourced from a local organic farm (the same place my anemone models came from a while back). After a while, the…
The Dance of Spring is the Dance of Life poster was published by Wilderness Studio, a company I founded, in the 1980s. The Dance of Spring did very well indeed for us,…
I made this light box composition with two spirals: one of small, wet rocks and the other with blossoms cut from a blue hydrangea bloom. I thought to create an…
I am pleased to announce that I will be teaching at the Out of Chicago Botanic Garden Photography Conference in Deerfield, Ilinois near Chicago, August 23–27th, 2020. If you care…
New in Workshops The early-bird registration for Photograph Tokyo (Oct 24 - Nov 1, 2020) ends soon (Jan 31). Please consider joining us for a fabulous destination photography workshop. Click…
We are offering for a limited time your choice of one these four photographs by Harold Davis of Claude Monet's legendary Garden at Giverny, France at a very special price.…
These images use both cutting edge photographic techniques, digital painting adapted from my background as a painter, and software post-production to create images that are unique and uniquely different. I…
For reasons I won't go into at this time, I find myself these days often driving south to Palo Alto on the peninsula. It's about an hour from my home…
My new book Creative Garden Photography is due out from Rocky Nook towards the end of the summer 2020. The book features garden photography from around the world, some of…
It's mid-January, and that means springtime in Berkeley. Witness two iPhone photographs: the soles of Phyllis's gardening shoes with dirt contrasting to the treads, and the gate to a neighbor's…
Starting the new year right, I took my time with a bouquet of orange and white roses, first photographing a white rose close up for differential focus. Next, I made…