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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…