I've been listening to a Nobel prize play-list of Bob Dylan---both his own voice and cover versions of his songs---while photographing and processing my White Phalaenopsis Orchid and Variegated Phalaenopsis Orchid images.…
This one is more colorful than the white-on-white Phalaenopsis I photographed yesterday!
Nice to be back to photographing flowers on my light box after so many adventures in the field...starting with this orchid blossom!
Eons ago, when we first moved to California, we bought our house. Built in 1924, we bought it from the sixty-something kids of the original owners, the mom having recently…
Dahlias are not an autumn flower, although they come towards the end of summer riotous display of floral colorification. It's actually the autumnal hues of these particular Dahlias that makes…
In what is almost a starfish of the land, this purple Dahlia is wonderfully asymmetric and spiral-like. Related image: Dahlia.
Yesterday I photographed my dahlias on a literal table (the term "table-top photography" can sometimes be a bit figurative), using sunlight, a telephoto macro lens, and a low-to-the-ground tripod to…
I've been doing a great deal of black and white work for my forthcoming book from Monacelli Press, so its nice to take a color break with a color image,…
Yesterday was going to be a day of routine and mundane tasks: bookkeeping, workflow management, writing business emails, and so on. As a professional photographer and artist, this stuff has…
Here are two new floral images shot and processed with my iPhone. Both were initially processed in Snapseed. The upper image was then put through Plastic Bullet and Lo-Mob, with…
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Watson meet for the very first time and agree to share an apartment. As new roomies, Holmes…
The flowers in my garden decided to have a party. The Fourth of July Roses brought the noise makers and musical instruments. The irises brought the guacamole and dip. The…
The wonderful Matilija Poppies, Romneya coulteri, are in full bloom in the East Bay hills across the water from San Francisco, California. White, platter-sized translucent flowers dominate a tall stem…