The other day in my garden I looked under some leaves and found a family of small succulents. These plants were wonderful in their tiny spiralness, and I knew I…
My new, upcoming book Composition & Photography: Creating Structure Using Forms and Patterns is now available for pre-order from Amazon. I am very excited about this title, which will be…
The Cymbidium Orchid image is a reprocess of a 2016 light box image, with a background texture added at the behest of a client. The Cymbidium grows outdoors in our…
The other day I was introduced to the rather wonderful work of the artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013). She is perhaps best known for her intricate nature-inspired sculpture made of metal…
My idea with these yellow (actually, close to orange) peppers was to create a lattice composition on the light box. The lattice should be arranged so that it had a…
In parts of the Caribbean, edible root vegetables are often called "ground provisions." Yesterday was a ground-provisions day. I primarily photographed beets and radishes. This is a continuation of my…
Just like the aggregation of pear slices, it is possible to create interesting melanges of all kinds of sliced fruits and vegetables. The sliced kiwi fruits (below) remind me of…
There are few more beautiful landscapes on this good earth than Death Valley. Here are a few images from my recent visit, with the photographs emphasizing patterns and folds in…
What you may find a little different about this photo of a palm frond is the viewpoint: my macro lens is looking straight down the frond, so that it looks…
The common theme in these three monochromatic images taken in Paris is that they are about patterns---as seen in three dimensional architectural objects, but reduced to two apparent planes. And…
Actually, in this case it starts with an arrangement on my light box, and eight high-key HDR exposures recombined in Photoshop. The resulting image is shown immediately below. An LAB…
It started with two wonderful bunches of alstromerias ("Peruvian Lilies"), one purple and one yellow. On the alstromeria flower, the blossoms have exterior petals that are mostly solid colors (e.g.,…
You've got to love the roofs of Paris for their variety, antiquity, and the sheer wackiness of the patterns they create! I made this pair of images, shown here in…
Browsing in the produce section of Berkeley Bowl I was transfixed by spiral nature of Romanesco Broccoli, an edible flower in the broccoli family. The flower's form approximates a natural fractal…
The quest for an interesting photographic image is in large part the need to find order in an inherently chaotic universe. Even if that quest ends up showing disorder, it…
I am particularly fond of the patterns of buildings and rooftops you see in European towns and cities. Above, the town of Manarola in Cinque Terre, Italy, photographed this year…
The other day dawned here in Berkeley, California with low, clinging fog. It was like being in the middle of a cloud. The thing about this kind of weather is…
Wandering with the kids over to Indian Rock I came across some really nice spiral specimens of Aloe polyphylla. The plant is originally from Lesotho near South Africa, and is…