Spring Wreath
Here's a spring wreath of flowers composed on my light box for you to enjoy! Happy spring! Interested in how I made this image? Please consider my Photographing Flowers for…
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April 6, 2016
Photograph Paris (and Giverny) the first week of May!
Paris, as Audrey Hepburn said, is always a good idea. Please consider joining my small group of photographers in Paris (and, oh yeah, at the Monet gardens in Giverny!) the…
April 6, 2016
Punch Bowl
This image looking down on a glass bowl is one of a series of fractal-like images I've made that are constructed by adding the initial image to successively reduced versions…
April 4, 2016
Park Path and Reflection
I photographed this image in the Parc de Sceaux, which is located in the suburbs of Paris, France and accessible to the city center via light rail (RER).
April 1, 2016
Monet’s Lily Pond at Giverny
This May will mark my fourth visit to Giverny in three years---each time a kind of pilgrimage to this extraordinary and iconic place. Along with Ansel Adams's prints of the…
March 31, 2016
Double Rainbow Pano over Paris
This panorama of a double rainbow over Paris was shot during a spring rain storm from the Pont Solferino as I described in an earlier story. The pano consists of…
March 31, 2016
Giverny
I am looking forward very much to visiting the gardens at Giverny again with my camera the first week of May! Here are some reflections in Monet's famous ponds: This…
March 30, 2016
Pont Louis Philippe
An autumn afternoon in Paris on a somewhat sloppy day, with one of the channels of the Seine River photographed from the Pont Louis Philippe, and the golden light of late…
March 30, 2016
Southwest France Itinerary
If you'd like to armchair travel, we've sent out a day-by-day itinerary for the lucky photographers who will be traveling with me soon to the southwest of France. You can…
March 28, 2016
Coming to Life
Following up on the theme of transformation in Metamorphosis (waterfall into human) and Dark Angel (flower into human), and the thoughts I've expressed about the new role of digital photography as…
March 27, 2016
Dark Angel
In a previous blog post I wrote that "digital techniques have freed us from the orthodoxy of the camera, just as in the past the camera freed painters from the…
March 26, 2016
Clematis in a Blue Bowl
I photographed Clematis in a Blue Bowl as a companion piece to Orchids in a Blue Bowl, shown far below and (with exposure and processing information) in this blog story.
March 25, 2016
The Appeal of Venice Off-Season
Photograph Venice in November with Harold Davis In November, most of the people are gone, skies can be atmospheric and cloudy, and photography of Venice is at its best! Please…
March 24, 2016
Clematis, and tulips, and irises, Oh My!
Exposure data: Photographed on a light box with a Nikon D810, MC-36A remote release, and Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 ZF-mount. Two panels, combined horizontally. Each panel comprised of 7 exposures…
March 23, 2016
Flowers for Transparency December Session (early-bird discount applies)
Due to many requests, I have opened a new weekend workshop session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency for the Saturday December 3 and Sunday December 4 weekend (2016) here in…
March 21, 2016
From iPhone to Art
From iPhone to Art From iPhone to Art is a full-day workshop on Saturday May 21, 2016 in Berkeley, California. I have often been asked to lead a workshop that…
March 20, 2016
Metamorphosis
A metamorphosis is a transformation. In this image, a model, also shown in Nude Descending a Ladder, is transforming into a portion of Multnomah Falls (or vice versa, the waterfall…
March 19, 2016