Today I walked across the Ponte Rodo-Ferroviária de Valença (shown in the image) across the River Minho from Tui in Galicia, Spain to Valenca in Portugal, and back again. Other…
I visited Monet's wonderful garden at Giverny with my small group of photographers. In the late afternoon, we had the garden mostly to ourselves and were able to photograph in…
These tulips were x-rayed to provide the internal structure of the flowers (see image below). They were then photographed in alignment on a light box for translucency, and to provide…
With the storm receding, from the top of the Tour Montparnasse near sunset, Paris looked like it could be any other rain-wracked landscape (of course, it is not, there is…
Within Schwetzingen Garden, the Temple of Mercury is an intentional ruin from the late 1700s. Built to romantically fall down, the question today is how to conserve a structure intended…
This image combines---hence the term "fusion"---the x-ray version of the floral medley composition with a translucent version of the same arrangement photographed in alignment on a light box.
Working with Dr Julian Kopke, I laid out this x-ray composition on a sheet of plexiglass above the sensor. The results you see are actually two x-rays combined, because there…
My friend's friend had a key to the side gate into the grand garden of the Schwetzingen Castle. The friend's friend was prevailed upon to let us into the garden…
A palindrome is a phrase that is the same read backwards and forwards. Some examples are Madam I'm Adam, A man a plan a canal Panama, and of course Napoleon's…
Before coming to Lake Konstanz, I didn't have a very good sense of its geography, other than Lake Konstanz was on the border of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. My friends…
The Peruvian lily (botanically alstroemeria), or "Lily of the Incas," was once limited to two small ranges in South America, one blooming in the winter (Chile), and one in the…
How very, very sad to learn that Notre Dame is on fire. Here are some images I've made over the years with the thought that it is okay to remember…
I'm excited about my upcoming trip to Europe. I'll be in Germany working with my friend Julian Kopke to make more x-rays and fusions x-rays, then leading a small group…
The wisteria are in bloom around town. Their lush blues and purples, and lavish grape-juice odor, dominate the staid landscape of "the flats." In the hills, the wisteria are not…
Quartet (click here to see it larger) is one photo duplicated three times. The duplicates have been rotated 90 degrees, and in two cases flipped along an axis as well.…
An important question when looking at a photo is, What is this photo about? In the case of an image of a single flower blossom, likely candidates depend where the image is…