Optical Studies
My favorite comment on this series of images, on #3, found over on Instagram: "I've sat here a long time looking at this!"
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December 30, 2018
Playing with Light
For the past few days of the break between Christmas and New Years, I have been playing with light. Of course, the word photography is derived from "writing with light"---and…
December 29, 2018
Study in Petals on Black © Harold Davis
Harold Davis—Best of 2018
2018 has been quite a year in art for me. Travel has included the Southwest of France, the Balearic Islands, a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, teaching at Maine…
December 21, 2018
Star Gazer Lily
The Star Gazer Lily is more correctly StarGazer Lily or Lillium 'StarGazer', with "StarGazer" crammed together in one word. This Asiatic Lily is a fairly recent hybridization (circa 1974) of…
December 20, 2018
Cosmic Misunderstanding
Somewhat in the spirit of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, maybe it is all a misunderstanding on the cosmic scale, with the universe a multidimensional freeway interchange where we've…
December 17, 2018
Life Is Strange—Further Abstractions and some Abstract Thoughts
Life is strange. We take inspiration, and the other self-actualization needs and desires that are high up the Maslow hierarchy, where we can find them. From within the prison of…
December 16, 2018
Easy Travel to Other Planets
Related stories: The Making of the Abstractions; Abstracts and a Photographic Mystery; More Abstractions!
December 14, 2018
Exploring the Sacramento Delta
The Steamboat Slough Bridge, shown here from underneath, was built in 1924. According to HistoricBridges.org, this bridge is a good example of a Strauss heel-trunnion bascule bridge. Despite some repair…
December 13, 2018
More abstractions!
Related stories: The Making of the Abstractions; Abstracts and a Photographic Mystery.
December 12, 2018
The Making of the Abstractions
This image and the two other abstracts shown in a previous story were constructed by allowing strong sunlight to pass through bottles filled with fluid (dark brown maple syrup and…
December 10, 2018
Abstracts and a Photographic Mystery
Here's a photographic mystery for you! Can you reverse engineer these abstracts? As a hint, these were essentially created in the camera, with very minimal Photoshop processing in post-production (just…
December 9, 2018
Cefalu
Wandering through the Sicilian village of Cefalu, I made my way to the harbor jetty. Looking back at the whitewashed village, it was clear that from a monochromatic perspective, the…
December 7, 2018
Correlation versus Causality
In downtown Palermo, Sicily, at the intersection of Via Maqueda and Via Vittorio Emanuele is an ornate and baroque piazza, surrounded by four symmetrical structures with statues in niches. Dubbed…
December 4, 2018
Door in Trapani
On my way into Trapani, a refugee from my hotel in Palermo, I pulled the car over to stop at a MacDonald's on the outskirts of town to take advantage…
December 2, 2018
Patterns in Paris
The common theme in these three monochromatic images taken in Paris is that they are about patterns---as seen in three dimensional architectural objects, but reduced to two apparent planes. And…
November 30, 2018
Greetings from a peripatetic photographer and writer!
I've just returned from a voyage to Paris, then leading a group in Malta, followed by a week exploring Sicily. Prior to this, in October I was on a road…
November 29, 2018
The Maltese Falcon
So which one is jewel-encrusted? I seriously want to know which statue is "the" Maltese Falcon, the stuff (as Bogart puts it in the movie) that dreams are made of.…
November 28, 2018
Badlands Composition and Print
The badlands in this image are along the middle fork of the Kings River, photographed from a higher elevation. The point of this fairly abstract monochromatic composition is the contrast…
November 27, 2018