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Tracking the Curls

I don't know how to keep track of the curls any more. Maybe the best way is to run a train track through the curls in the two-dimensional substrate. Any…

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Print Sold

I am grateful to a longtime collector and friend who recently purchased this print on Moab Juniper Baryta of my Through the Rabbit Hole. Most of my images are available…

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End of Days

Soon the hot wind from on high is among us, and we feel the devil's riding crop. What unknown blasts fuel the motion of an already unstable and pockmarked sphere?…

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Platala

My goal with an image like Platala is to create a field that is so visually lush that it is distracting. This kind of image should be beautiful, with so many…

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Progression

Progression 1, shown above, is an image designed to be visually to be read from left to right. Creating this kind of fantastic decorative imagery takes more than a little…

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Fish Eye (Literally)

Recipe: Take a dark, turgid decorative pond wherein dwell some not very Coy Koi. Throw in a probe wide-angle macro lens. Make sure the macro probe is water proof at…

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Eye Candy

Here are three images from the "Eye Candy" files. Nautilus and Inversion (above, click on the image or here to view it larger) is a single photo of two halves of…

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Vitruvian Woman

In honor of the quincentennial of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, there will be numerous exhibitions of the master's work. His Vitruvian Man drawing in particular was subject to a…

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Garden Shrine

This a photograph of a niche shrine in a garden outbuilding---a rather elaborate shed---at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, also known as Green Dragon Temple (Soryu-ji). This Zen Center…

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Lost Coast of California

Some two hundred miles north of San Francisco, California lies a wilderness area known as the Lost Coast. In these ever-more-crowded times, the sobriquet "Lost Coast" is often used with…

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Falling into Spirals

Click here to view the image larger. Just returning from a photography trip to California's Lost Coast, with images to post after I get a chance to process them. But…

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Spirals of the Heart

Heart like a wheel, the heart is a lonely hunter, take another little piece of my heart, many are the songs, stories, and quotes and sayings related to the heart.…

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Gaillardia-gami

Carefully, I constructed this image. I composed it from two LAB color adjustments of a close-up photo of a Gaillardia flower (common name "blanket flower"). The finished composition was intended…

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