digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
What: Bringing Garden Photography Indoors with Harold Davis [Free Webinar sponsored by Rocky Nook] When: Wednesday September 30, 2020 at 11:00am PT. Duration between one and two hours, including Q&A…
This is a cross-section of one our tomatoes harvested from our raised-bed garden, photographed on my light box. But for the pandemic, I probably never would have been growing vegetables---so…
I created this image during the 2019 fire season, using a marble, direct sunlight, and a small loose glass lens for the refractions (the simulated fire). I suppose the image…
Please consider joining us this Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 11am PT for our very special and distinctly somewhat offbeat webinar noir. Noir is black, or dark. So “noir” can…
What: Copyright for Photographers | Free Public Service Webinar for the Photographic Community When: Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 11:00am PT (2pm ET). Duration between one and two hours, including…
These photographs of the World Trade Towers were made when I lived and worked as a photographer in New York in the 1980s. The upper two were made for an…
OK, so things here are weird today. If the pandemic and putrid politics of hate weren't bad enough---today we are living in twilight, enveloped by darkness. You'd think it was…
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…
These two images show virtual flowers constructed on my light box from thin slices of root vegetables. The Chiogga Beet slices have been cut vertically, as opposed to the horizontal…
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…
Traditionally, a mandala is a geometric shape that symbolically represents the cosmos or the universe, or perhaps a search for unity and completeness within oneself. I always enjoy creating mandalas,…
Where do ideas come from? In the case of these translucent fruit slices, an art consultant showed me an image of translucent fruit. I immediately thought of photographing fruit slices…
The upper photo is an X-Ray of a bouquet of dahlias, nemesia, and kangaroo paw flowers. It was made in May, 2019 using medical x-ray equipment, and processed yesterday while…
Sometimes it is really fun to line up a whole collection of objects in a grid on my light box, not worrying too much about fancy compositional issues. Take, for…
My Dahlia bed is starting to bloom, providing some very sweet subjects for solo flower portraits!
A while back, in the pre-pandemic era, I visited the International Car Forest of the Last Church. This so-called "Car Forest" is more like a car garden than a forest.…