Hohenzollern
Hohenzollern Castle, located in Swabia about 80 kilometers south of Stuttgart, Germany was home to the family that eventually spawned the emperors of Germany. Destroyed and rebuilt a number of…
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July 29, 2014
Scanning a Purple Flower
I was reminded of the very high resolution you can get from an inexpensive flatbed scanner recently when there was interest in a large print from one of my scanned…
July 27, 2014
Creative Use of LAB Color Recording Now Available
Creative Use of LAB Color Webinar Recording Understanding the creative use of LAB color in Photoshop unlocks a vast treasure trove of under-utilized and under-explored possibilities. Truly one of the…
July 27, 2014
When is a photo not a photo?
When is a photo not a photo? For many people in the photography and art worlds the answer to this question seems to depend on the aesthetics of the image…
July 25, 2014
Katie Rose and the ice cream cone
What fun to pick Katie Rose up at her pre-school, and wander down the coastal range by footpaths, steps and stairs. To watch her pleasure at an ice cream treat,…
July 23, 2014
Photographing the Paris Skyline
Photographing the Paris skyline at dusk would seem to be pretty straightforward. The rooftop observatory on top of the Tour Montparnasse is open late, and there are gaps in the…
July 21, 2014
San Francisco Weekend Photography Workshop with Harold Davis August 23-24
Saturday August 23 and Sunday August 24, 2014 The San Francisco Bay area is one of the places on our planet most visited for photography. If you live here, why…
July 20, 2014
Workshop Demo on a Light Box
The Gloriosa Lily is a notoriously poisonous---and extremely beautiful---flower. We had the Gloriosa and many other exceptional flowers to play with at the recent Creative Flower Photography workshop sponsored by…
July 17, 2014
Creative Use of LAB Color Webinar
Please consider joining Harold Davis for this exciting, new live webinar offering that will help you unlock the creative potential of floral imagery (and more)! Saturday, July 26, 2014 at…
July 15, 2014
Afternoon of the Faun
Captured in the castle garden at Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany.
July 15, 2014
Speyer Cathedral Dome
I spent my last night in Germany at a hotel near Frankfurt airport in a somewhat depressing industrial neighborhood. A few blocks from the hotel I found a nice place…
July 13, 2014
Heidelberg Student Jail
Mostly aristocratic students at Heidelberg University were not under the jurisdiction of the normal authorities. The University handled disciplinary matters. Facilities in the old University buildings included a jail (now…
July 8, 2014
Castle Stairs and Glass with Candle
It was a rainy drive from Heidelberg to Aalen, Germany. Once I got off the autobahn, the countryside was lush with moisture, but going was slow. I stopped for lunch…
July 8, 2014
Deux Chevaux Engine
The Citroen C2V was fondly known as the "deux chevaux," or two horses, after its putative power. Actually, the C2V engine has something like twenty horse power, and this is…
July 6, 2014
Stairs in the Heidelberg University Library
With a few of the students in my Black & White workshop I headed into the ornately decorated Heidelberg University Library. We asked if we could photograph in the library…
July 5, 2014
Girl in a Blue Dress
I set my camera up on a tripod and framed a sidewalk with some windows and a bicycle in old Heidelberg, Germany, waiting for pedestrians to come by. It was…
July 5, 2014
Maulbronn Monastery
Maulbronn Monastery, Kloster Maulbronn in German, is the best-preserved medieval Cistercian monastery in Europe. It is a World Heritage Site. Happening to get there so soon after my visit to the Cistercian…
July 3, 2014