As sunset turns to dusk, and dusk to night, colors linger on the towering westward-facing Pacific cliffs of the Big Sur peninsula. Long after the landscape is a murky, dark…
Yesterday I made a photographic trip to the Big Sur coast. It was a spectacular day for photography, and some images will no doubt follow in the due fullness of…
I pulled these pretty images of a field of chrysanthemums on a light box from my files, and processed it the other day. Did you know that "Odour of Chrysanthemums"…
2016 is a year of the fire monkey. This is by way of saying that one should rightfully have expected the unexpected. The monkey is a trickster, and not always…
Which of these versions of my first floral tondo do you like better? My favorite is Flower Tondo 1 Variation Inversion, shown immediately below on black, without the fancy curvilinear "virtual"…
Tondo is a Renaissance term for a circular painting. To create my floral tondo, I started with a circular pattern on my light box. I arranged an array of petals---mostly…
In the practice of modern photography, an exposure as long as five minutes duration during daytime hours seems like eternity. This is particularly true in the context of the raging…
I am a great fan of artistic calligraphy, particularly as seen in Japan and in historic Islamic cultures. So when I arranged these flowers on my light box I tried…
This image was made as an in-class demo of light box flower arrangement and post-production. I called on each workshop participant to choose a stem, then arranged them one-by-one on…
I'm very pleased with some of the great feedback for the recent Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop. Here's what some folks said: "Just a fabulous creative presentation for flowers that…
Definition of homeopathy: a system of medical practice that treats a disease especially by the administration of minute doses of a remedy that would in larger amounts produce in healthy persons symptoms…
Here's a portrait of her Mom that Katie Rose made using her pastels. I can sure see the spirit and the likeness in this drawing!
This is the box of pastels that Katie Rose loves to use to make her art. You can see she uses the pastels hard, but treats them with great care,…
I'm very pleased and excited to be leading a sold-out session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency next weekend here in Berkeley, CA. If this topic interests you, we are running…
First a kingdom, then a republic, and finally an empire---for a thousand years the pax Romana held. Today the glory that was Rome amounts to a curiosity, ruins of an…
I am used to leading two kinds of photography workshops: one is close enough to my home base in Berkeley so it is easy to set up the workshop room…