Happy Birthday, Martin
Recently we celebrated my Dad's 88th birthday. My Dad, Martin Davis, is very sweet, intelligent, and completely engaged with the world---and he blew out the candles on his cake on…
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March 10, 2016
Flowers for Transparency December Session (early-bird discount)
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 9, 2016
Multnomah Falls Redux
This is Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge photographed with my DSLR, in compare and contrast mode with my iPhone capture of the same location. I used my Nikon…
March 8, 2016
Multnomah Falls
Multnomah Falls, in the Columbia River Gorge, looks like the entrance to Rivendell or some other magical place, with its high, double waterfall, and seductive foot bridge between the upper…
March 6, 2016
Waterfall after Turner
This is a close-in view of White River Falls. Standing by the edge of the falls, the whole world seemed loud and in motion. My intention was to use the…
March 4, 2016
Eye of the Cave Panorama
This is a panorama view from behind Upper Horsetail Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. I shot the panorama in fourteen vertical photos, with each capture a RAW file translated…
March 2, 2016
Under the Yaquina Bay Bridge
The Yaquina Bay Bridge is a spectacular structure along the coast of Oregon. It's easy to get underneath to photograph, as shown in this image. Do you prefer the color…
March 1, 2016
New Session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency Announced
Due to many requests, I have opened a new session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency for the December 3-4 weekend (2016) here in Berkeley, CA. The workshop provides end-to-end hands-on…
February 29, 2016
Yaquina Bay Bridge
In the fog, the Yaquina Bay Bridge seemed to stretch on forever. The ending was obscure, and vanishingly difficult to find.
February 26, 2016
From Darkness into Light
Photography is famously about "writing with light"---or rendering light. In fact, light is integral to photography. You can't photograph a physical object. You can only capture the light reflected or…
February 25, 2016
Fairy Falls
Yesterday, after photographing Multnomah Falls, I walked up the icy path to Benson Bridge. From this bridge, I climbed the numbered switchbacks to the top of Multnomah Falls. From the…
February 24, 2016
Cold is the colour of crystal
"Cold is the colour of crystal the snowlight That falls from the heavenly skies"---Annie Lennox Related image: White River Falls. Thanks to @estatik on Flickr.
February 23, 2016
White River Falls
On my long drive up eastern Oregon, shortly before I got to the Columbia Gorge, I passed White River Falls, shown in the photo. White River Falls State Park was…
February 22, 2016
Human Spiral—Nautilus
This nine-image multiple exposure, combined in-camera another image in the same series, Rondo, reminds me of a living organism, or spiral shell such as the Nautilus.
February 21, 2016
Rondo
About the image: This is an in-camera multiple exposure. The ten exposures were combined in the camera using auto-gain. The model was Amelia Simone, who was wearing the red underwear…
February 20, 2016
Italian Sketches
Here are a few iPhone images from my photography tour to Italy in 2015. They were photographed on my iPhone 6s, and processed just now while waiting for the kids…
February 20, 2016
Audrey Hepburn: Paris is always a good idea
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…
February 19, 2016
Cymbidium Orchid
The Cymbidium orchid shown below in four variations photographed for transparency on a light box was to feature in its own drama of creative destruction: with the blossoms surgically taken…
February 16, 2016