Our Lady of Chartres
I recently was privileged to visit Chartres Cathedral with my group of Paris photographers. The upper two images were made inside Our Lady of Chartres with a fisheye lens and…
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June 5, 2019
Lost in the folds of a rose
It's easy for me to get lost in the folds of a rose. Each petal is a curve and a valley, and a landscape of pleasure. Why go anywhere else…
June 4, 2019
Baby’s Breath
I brought home some flowers, and arranged them into bouquets. A small sprig of Baby's Breath (Gyposphila) broke off, and I put it in a little glass jar. The stem…
June 3, 2019
Tokyo here we come
I'm organizing a photography week in Tokyo for next year. As part of my research and planning for this destination photo workshop I pulled some photos from my files that…
May 31, 2019
Garden Photography Workshop – Capturing the Great Gardens of Maine
I'll be teaching a week long course in garden photography at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine again this year. The dates are August 11-17, 2019. Click here for a…
May 28, 2019
Redone in an edit for a client
I reprocessed these two images as part of an edit for a longstanding client of mine. The upper image in panorama format is of a sunrise in the Carpathian Mountains…
May 26, 2019
Creative Black and White 2nd Edition eBook Now Available
We're very excited about the second edition of Creative Black & White. The eBook is now available for purchase and download (the actual "book book" will follow in a month…
May 23, 2019
Home, Peonies, and Irises
I've been traveling a month and a day---with x-ray photography, a lovely group in Paris (the after-hours session in Monet's garden at Giverny was probably my favorite part), and a…
May 23, 2019
The Scallop Shell Symbol on the Camino
If you've walked the Camino de Santiago, you'll have followed a route marked with scallop shell symbols. Along with many other pilgrims, I have a scallop shell hanging from my…
May 19, 2019
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela at Sunrise
For well over a millennia, the Cathedral of Saint James has been the goal of a tireless---and tired and footsore---stream of pilgrims toiling along the various Caminos that lead to…
May 18, 2019
Garden along the Camino
Someone had built this garden beside the trail in the nook beside an old stone wall, with its rose trellis across a small spring. Now, half wild, the garden was…
May 16, 2019
Blue Arrow and Yellow Arrow
The algorithm for following one of the pilgrimage trails to Santiago de Compostela is really pretty simple: follow the yellow arrows, or the well-known Camino clamshell trail markers. If you…
May 14, 2019
Ponte Sampaio
Built on a Roman foundation, the Ponte Sampaio is the site of a decisive battle to liberate Galicia from Napoleon's French army under Marshal Ney in 1809. For more on…
May 13, 2019
Did the Serpent Get a ‘Bum Rap’?
I think the serpent may have gotten a bum rap. At the very least, there is some indignity to an honest snake for being depicted as a kind of lizard…
May 11, 2019
Seen Along the Way of Saint James
Here are a few random sightings captured with my iPhone camera on the Way of Saint James, specifically the Camino Portuguese, on my walk through southern Galicia towards Santiago. Above,…
May 11, 2019
Last Gas
I found this signage advertising the "latest" bar on the Camino Portuguese shortly before the Spanish border where the great pilgrimage trail crosses the River Minho to Tui, Spain. By…
May 9, 2019
Roman Bridges of Galicia
There are literally hundreds of Roman bridges in Galicia, many used by or adjacent to the Camino Portuguese. Some of these are more recent constructions on the Roman-engineered foundations, but…
May 9, 2019
Inside Tui Cathedral and I Have a Bilbo Baggins Moment
Tui Cathedral is nominally the starting point for my Camino. This is where my pilgrimage begins. The distances are calculated from the doors of the Cathedral. Inside, the Cathedral is…
May 8, 2019