Spruce Street House
The parents of one of Katie Rose's buddies at pre-school are architects who just bought a classical Berkeley shingle house from the early 1900s. In recent years this grand house…
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January 30, 2012
Thistle While You Workshop
Arlington Avenue is a divided street that runs a block away from my home from Marin Circle in North Berkeley to downtown Kensington, California---a quaint low-key strip that hosts a…
January 25, 2012
Cherry Dance
Cherry Dance is manifestly a digital art creation. This collage combines a photo of blossoms on a cherry branch with two flat-bed scans of paper---using Photoshop to create a whole that resembles…
January 20, 2012
You Are What You Photograph
Are you what you photograph? They say, "You are what you eat." In a certain simplisitic sense this is obviously true. Therefore, if you photograph what you eat then you…
January 16, 2012
Getting Off Automatic
As a professional photographer I almost always use my camera in manual exposure mode. Most of the time I have no use for programmed automatic or semi-automatic modes---or, God forbid, one…
January 13, 2012
Floral Tapestries
To create these images, I arranged flowers on a lightbox that was proportionally much wider than it was tall. Next, I shot straight down with a macro lens, bracketing for…
January 8, 2012
Workbench
Over the winter holidays I took our boys on a "field trip" to Fort Ross State Historic Park. Fort Ross marks the furthest point south of the expansion of the…
January 6, 2012
Liz
This is a shot of professional model Liz Ashley. The lighting is from one strobe, hand-held to the left of the camera.
January 5, 2012
Agaves
In the dead of winter there's not much color, even in California's usually highly saturated gardens. The Tilden Park Botanic Garden emphasizes California native plants. It's always a wonderful place…
January 2, 2012