Being a Professional Artist Means Business As a successful professional artist and photographer—and, not entirely coincidentally, a business person—I am aware that sometimes you have to spend money to make…
There's nothing I like better than to capture romantic landscapes. Of course, any landscape can be romantic in the right light, and almost any landscape can be grim in harsh…
This one is more colorful than the white-on-white Phalaenopsis I photographed yesterday!
Nice to be back to photographing flowers on my light box after so many adventures in the field...starting with this orchid blossom!
I like to photograph from my hotel room, and I make a point of requesting rooms with a view. Sometimes this works. There's nothing particularly characteristic of Milan, Italy in…
We are looking for a (very) few good photographers (or a photographer and spouse) to join our small, exclusive group going to the southwest of France in April, 2017. Click…
The special characteristics of light at sunset---first the "golden hour," followed by the "blue hour"---are well known to all serious landscape photographers. Indeed, the quality of the light and the…
I'm just back from a photographic trip to Italy. You can see a couple of the images I processed first by clicking Dawn on Lake Como, Tuscan Landscape, and Duomo…
The Bramante Stairs is a double helix staircase, meaning it consists of two independent helical stairs in the same vertical space, allowing one person to ascend and another to descend, without…
This field has been plowed. It is autumn, and the land is bare, waiting in lengthy passivity for the new crops of spring to begin to show. The patterns in…
I've just got home and am recovering from a 26-hour day of travel, and the nine hours of jet lag between the Bay area and Italy. That said, it was…
It's my personality for my "eyes to be bigger than my stomach," my artistic ego to be large, and my ability to say no to a possible photo nil regardless…
Visiting the Vatican Museum is an affair of moving with and through crowds. Most are in densely packed "schools of fish" (in tour groups). Others lumber slowly, couples or small…
Il Campo is the central square in Siena, Italy---famous for its horse races, as a hang-out spot, and as a demonstration of the civic power of the historic republic of…
This large clerestory window in the Duomo in Trento, Italy struck me as quite like a mandala with bright, overcast light shining through. I underexposed the image to emphasize the effect. The…
Who knew you could ski in Tuscany (at least in the winter)? I photographed these beautiful autumn trees on the upper slopes of Monte Amiata. This is the dominate peak…
From the tower hanging above the central piazza in the Tuscan hill town of Montepulciano, I heard lucid guitar chords rising on the wind. I looked down to find the musician.…
Rising not quite with the sun, on my way over to the breakfast room, I saw the landscape below with patches of fog, a veritable pattern of lights and darks,…