Iris Trilogy
Sometimes simple is best!
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July 17, 2016
Flores Pano on Black, and on White
I've been doing a great deal of black and white work for my forthcoming book from Monacelli Press, so its nice to take a color break with a color image,…
July 15, 2016
Handsome Gargoyle Devil and the Pinhole Effect
A gargoyle is a carved grotesque, with (sometimes) the practical function of serving as a down spout for rain, and often the emotional purpose of warding off evil spirits. The…
July 13, 2016
Get Your Camera Off Automatic: Full Day Workshop with Harold Davis on Saturday Sept 17, 2016
Full Day Workshop: Get Your Camera Off Automatic with Harold Davis Have you always wanted to take fantastic photos, but somehow they never seem to come out as well as you…
July 11, 2016
Kira in a Cafe
For the demonstration of how to add a post-production selective soft focus using an Iris Blur for my forthcoming book from Monacelli Press, The Photographer's Black and White Handbook, I…
July 10, 2016
Join Harold Davis at Maine Media Workshops Aug 7-13, 2016
There's still time to join my small group of photographers in Maine for a week of intensive photography and self-exploration. This workshop is scheduled for August 7-13, 2016 at Maine…
July 9, 2016
Duck Crossing
I think this "Duck Crossing" traffic sign is for real. I found the crossing sign, along with many ducks and other water fowls, while walking the other day in the Marina…
July 8, 2016
Black & White in San Francisco: A Weekend Workshop with Harold Davis
Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20, 2016 This workshop includes field photography in several Bay area locations, and monochromatic shooting techniques in the field. Classroom sessions will explore black & white…
July 6, 2016
Rooftops of Paris—Split-Toned Version
I used my image of the Rooftops of Paris as a demonstration image for my new book, The Photographer's Black and White Handbook. In my book, I use the image to…
July 5, 2016
As Time Goes By
On a late November wet afternoon, as dusk turned to sodden night, I wandered the banks of the Seine River with my camera. My idea was to render the street…
July 3, 2016
From iPhone to ART: A weekend iPhonegraphy workshop with Harold Davis
From iPhone to ART: The Art of iPhoneography A Two-Day Weekend Workshop with Harold Davis, Saturday January 28 - Sunday January 29, 2017. This workshop will be hosted in Berkeley,…
July 2, 2016
Three Cranes in Paris
This is a photograph of the Paris skyline from May, 2016 I recently processed for a current project. I like the way it shows Paris as a city always in…
July 1, 2016
Inside Prague’s Old Town Square Tower
For a book about black and white photography I am working on, I needed a few more images from Prague in the Czech Republic. This image shows the inside of…
June 29, 2016
Negative-for-Positive Funhouse Fun
This is a photo of the Hall of Mirrors in Prague in the Czech Republic. To create the negative-for-positive effect---which is somewhat like looking at a film negative rather than…
June 28, 2016
Full-Day Advanced LAB Color Seminar with Harold Davis
We are offering a new, full-day Advanced LAB Color Seminar for those who want to learn more about one of the most mysterious, powerful, and underused set of creative tools…
June 27, 2016
Eschew the Routine
Yesterday was going to be a day of routine and mundane tasks: bookkeeping, workflow management, writing business emails, and so on. As a professional photographer and artist, this stuff has…
June 26, 2016