Flowers for Kwangsik
Kwangsik came from Korea to attend our San Francisco in Black & White workshop this past weekend. On Friday, by special arrangement, he spent some time with me going over…
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September 18, 2017
Welcome Home Flowers
It's great to come home to tulips and lobelias from the garden to photograph. Thank you Phyllis! Not to mention such a lovely, warm, and wonderful family. I photographed the…
September 8, 2017
Demonstration Flower Projects
Here are two of the images I used to demonstrate capture and post-production at my recent Photographing Flowers for Transparency course at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine. When I…
August 16, 2017
White Rose
I love to photograph white roses from my garden. This one is a John F. Kennedy Hybrid Tea Rose. For me, the white rose represents peace and simplicity. It's also…
August 13, 2017
I Heart Dahlias
Today my class went to photograph a Dahlia Farm. I love these flowers because each one is unique, and because they are so colorful (even when I do convert to…
August 3, 2017
Flowers from My Garden; Off to Maine
I'm off to Maine tomorrow morning to teach flower photography in the coming week. With departure looming before me once again, of course I feel the need to take advantage…
July 27, 2017
Beep! Beep!
Some days it's fun just to play! In that spirit, this morning I made this motorcycle (or car) from flowers on my light box. It's complete with headlamps and exhaust.…
July 22, 2017
Flower Photography Workshop in Maine Coming Up Soon
Please consider joining me July 31 - August 5, 2017 at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine for a week of intensive flower photography---both on the light box and in…
July 4, 2017
Matilija Poppies and Mallows
You got to love the Matilija Poppy, a California native, with its wonderful huge yellow center and puffy white petals. The poppies are of the Romneya genus (so are neither…
June 23, 2017
Ladybird Poppy
Yesterday was a cool Father's Day. I woke to freshly brewed coffee and cards from the kids. Then I went with Phyllis, my own wonder woman, to see the new…
June 19, 2017
Design for a Stained Glass Window Made of Flowers
To create this design for a stained glass window, I started by laying down a series of mallow blossoms in a loose spiral (the magenta flowers). Next, I filled in…
June 1, 2017
The Amazing World of Flowers
One of the things I love most about flower photography is that it compels one to look closely at flowers. The more you look, the more you see! What a…
May 27, 2017
Recent Flower Photos
I'm happy to take advantage of the wonderful spring flowers this year here in California, and make up for the time I was traveling with some extensive flower photography! Here…
May 25, 2017
Home is Best…with Flower Photography
As the saying goes, "You may travel east, you may travel west, but in your heart you know home is best!" In the past two months, I have traveled east…
May 17, 2017
Tulips and a Clematis Vine
It's wonderful to be back---if only for a brief while---in the flowering springtime of northern California. It's always hard for me to resist spending some time photographing flowers, and today…
April 15, 2017
The Whole Magnolia Branch
This is the magnolia branch I brought home and used for macro photography practice in an image I showed earlier. Composition of the entire branch was a bit of a…
March 13, 2017