Rockport Maine to New York City
Not so much in common. Maybe photography? Now onward, and across "The Pond."
0 Comments
August 14, 2018
Times Square
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,…
August 13, 2018
Buddha
My class and I found this wonderful Buddha in the extraordinary Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine.
August 9, 2018
Maine Flowers
This was an in-class light box demo, using flowers that my wonderful workshop participants scavenged from the grounds of Maine Media Workshops.
August 8, 2018
Gardens of Maine
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…
August 8, 2018
The Maine Thing
My main thing in Maine is to photograph flowers and gardens---after all, that is the course I am teaching. But while here, certainly I am having some lobster. While I…
August 5, 2018
Once upon a Tintype
My uncle, at least I think he was my uncle, came back from far away places, India and beyond. He was footsore, and he wanted to rest for days, indeed…
August 1, 2018
Mountains of the Mind
Mist in the distant mountains is nature's way of replacing clarity of sight with unspoken nuance. We do not know what lies beneath the layers of mist, but there is…
July 28, 2018
Poem of the Road
The poem of the road is as old as the ages. The road beckons, tantalizes, leads us on. There are new vistas, new opportunities. We flee from danger down the…
July 26, 2018
The Art of Photographing Flowers for Transparency: Harold Davis at B&H in New York (Aug 13, 2018)
I'll be presenting The Art of Photographing Flowers for Transparency on Monday August 13, 2018 at the B&H Photo Event Space, 420 Ninth Avenue, in New York City from 1-3…
July 18, 2018
Papaver Poppy Pods Gone to Seed
When Papavers go to seed, they produce pods that hold the seeds. You can scrape out the pod to harvest the seeds. When one puts a clump of these seeds…
July 11, 2018
Anthers in Love
Sometimes it is fun to get lost in the worlds of macro photography. Even the somewhat commonplace can become a different and intriguing universe. As in this conventionally lit, extreme…
July 11, 2018
Through a Glass Lightly
The last few years have been traveling years for me. This means time in restaurants. Sometimes alone. Waiting for food. Or with a crowd out eating, but alone inside. Either…
July 3, 2018
Solar Flare
Here's the latest in my series of mandala images on a light box, this one with petals circling around a sunflower. The outer ring consists of "stars" from a flowering…
June 29, 2018
Tulip Petal Detail after Karl Blossfeldt
Who knew that tulip stems could curl symmetrically with four looping branches? When I saw this, it reminded me of some of the flora photographed by Karl Blossfeldt. Blossfeldt's original…
June 26, 2018
2018 Photographing Flowers for Transparency Workshop
This was a great Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop this weekend, with nice folks who are creative photographers coming from many places around the world. I hope they get safely…
June 24, 2018
Two from the iPhone files
Dogwood Flowers in a Bowl and Poppies and Echinaceas were both photographed with my iPhone camera. These were arrangements that were "collateral damage" to having flowers around from my garden…
June 21, 2018
Garden Flowers with Dogwood
This pair of images consists of a light box composition on white, and its LAB L-channel inversion on black. My thoughts are turning to Photographing Flowers for Transparency, as I…
June 19, 2018