Antoni Gaudi, the architect of the fabulous Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Catalonia, liked to use organic shapes of nature in his designs. Hence the pillars in the Sagrada Familia cathedral…
San Francisco dreams in black and white. Please come visit my new virtual gallery of San Francisco in Black and White! What goes on behind the shades in the lit…
Peter is a neighbor and a good man. These days, he mostly takes care of his disabled adult son. Photographed hand-held with my Zeiss Otus 85mm lens at 1/3200 of…
Downtown Porto, Portugal's second city, has aspects of an amusement park for adults, without being cloying. There's a great river with boats of every kind, an old town with ancient…
The cotter pin, also sometimes called a split pin, is piece of metal separated into two tines. The tines are bent outwards in installation, and the cotter pin is used…
Shot along the paths of Berkeley, California with my iPhone, and processed primarily using the Snapseed app iPhone while waiting for long exposures to complete. Having a camera and a…
There are probably more neolithic sites in Portugal than anywhere else in Europe. While I was trying to locate a large neolithic site near Evora, Samantha guided me beneath a…
Recent winter rainstorms have battered the San Francisco area in Northern California with much needed rain. In a break in the weather I decided to hike to Cataract Falls on…
According to our guide Abdul, the indigenous construction in Morocco is very environmentally friendly: made of earth and sand, when it is no longer used it gradually decays back to…
In the Upper Douro Valley of Portugal the grapes are grown that become the famous port wine that has made Oporto, Portugal's second city on the banks of the Douro River where…
When I travel I always try to select hotels that are likely to have interesting views, and to request a room with a view if possible. Of course, my idea…
Tomorrow we take the ferry across the Straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. How fitting then to spend our last day in Spain exploring Granada and the fabulous Alhambra---the fabled…
High above a tributary of the Lot River in the Dordogne Department in southwestern France, Rocamadour has attracted pilgrims for centuries. The town sits below an ecclesiastical complex of monastic…
I photographed the beautiful model Dasha as part of my Multiple Exposures sequence in Variations, I never know which me, Quo Vadis and Dance of the Seven Veils. I was asked recently…
Photography is about light. You can't photograph an actual thing, only the light reflected or emitted by the thing. What does this come down to at its irreducible minimum? Perhaps…
Here are some variations on I never know which me. The upper variation has been flipped, and a texture added to make the model appear to be coming out of…
Converting to Black & White with Photoshop and Silver Efex Pro, webinar live session Saturday September 27 at 3PM I'd be the first to admit that my series of webinar…
This succulent lives in a little pot on our front porch. For my first shot with my new Nikon D810, I brought it inside, wrapped the plant in its pot…