I am very pleased and excited that my online course Photoshop: Backgrounds and Textures is now live. Click here to view my course on LinkedIn Learning and here to view…
As Robert Louis Stevenson put it, "Under the wide and starry skies glad did I live." But if you live in a city or even a town, it is likely…
I hiked into Rainbow Falls in Devils Postpile National Monument. No rainbows this day, but a great waterfall in monochrome!
Coming down the long steep road from Tioga Pass, the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains was hazy. In the distance, thunder rumbled. Then, to my surprise, a sharp…
The technical idea behind my in-camera series of multiple exposures of models is to work with the models to use the human body to create an external shape, as defined…
Like the nearly empty road in Poem of the Road, train stations give rise to existential questions. Where are we hurrying, and why? When a track and platform are empty,…
Here are some (more) x-rays and fusion x-rays of flowers. Fusion x-rays use post-production to combine "straight" x-rays with light box images of the same composition. For background information on…
When I got the call that Phyllis had been admitted to the hospital with a mysterious high fever, I knew I had to cut my visit to Berlin and eastern…
I had to quickly change my plans due to a family emergency and fly home from Berlin. Now that I'm at home, it's good that things have settled down again,…
I write this from the train from Frankfurt to Berlin, where Julian K. and I are sitting in a first class car at the all-important table, with the all-important wi-fi…
This Dahlia was photographed on a light box for transparency, then captured via x-ray photography. The two capture techniques were combined in Photoshop. In the upper version, there is also…
I am honored to be included as one of the top fifteen photography blogs in the English language worldwide. This is good company to be in. Thanks for the award!…
This is a fusion of an x-ray and a light box high-key HDR sequence, using a medical x-ray machine and photographed on a light box. My friend Dr Julian Koepke…
Not so much in common. Maybe photography? Now onward, and across "The Pond."
From high above Times Square, New York does indeed seem to be the "city that never sleeps." A pulsing light show of humanity whatever hour of the day or night,…
My class and I found this wonderful Buddha in the extraordinary Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine.
This was an in-class light box demo, using flowers that my wonderful workshop participants scavenged from the grounds of Maine Media Workshops.
So far, this is a wonderful Garden Photography workshop despite the rather overpowering heat and humidity (a bit unexpected on the coast of Maine, even in August). There are fourteen…