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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

It is easy to go down the rabbit hole when you love spirals! I have been dreaming of these stairs, over and over again, obsessively. And so I spend my…

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…

Click here to view Sound of the Sea larger. These two composite images in pano format involve repetition of the same image in different guises: flipped back-to-back, flipped vertically, with…

Today I am thinking about a quote from Philip Pullman that I read in a recent interview with the author in The New Yorker Magazine: "Reason is a good servant…

Shoshin is a word from Zen Buddhism that is often translated as "beginner's mind." Beginner's Mind means having an attitude of openness, and lack of preconceptions when studying a subject…

Starting with a light box image of flowers arranged vertically (shown below), I created an L-channel LAB inversion, as well as a variant using the Exclusion Blending Mode. I curled…