Flowers that Remain
I had a great Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop over the weekend, with a nice group of workshop participants who were eager to learn, and I think had fun! I'm…
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June 24, 2019
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Making a Flower Block and LAB Collage
Last week I photographed a medley of flowers from our garden on the light box, with one result shown in a previous story. The flowers together formed almost a kind…
June 17, 2019
Surreal Lady Fish
Take one model (Katlyn Lacoste). Make two in-camera studio multiple exposures of the model using strobes on a black background. Turn the exposures sideways, and mix and match in Photoshop.…
June 16, 2019
Papaver Triptych
The Nearly Perfect Poppy close-up is the center panel of the Triptych. Click here or on the image to view it larger.
June 15, 2019
Nearly Perfect Poppy
Waking up to a morning of partial sunshine, I saw this new, glowing, orange Poppy blossom in the plantings along our front porch. It was definitely dappled and dawn-drawn. Although…
June 14, 2019
Waves on Drakes Beach
Today I reprocessed this image of Waves from a while back so that the photo would work for a substantial enlargement. I wanted to keep the soft quality of the…
June 13, 2019
Papaver Rhoeas Medley
It was fun to spend a slow weekend morning with the family at home. Everyone was engaged, no one was bored or whining or hungry. I photographed flowers from our…
June 10, 2019
Our Lady of Chartres
I recently was privileged to visit Chartres Cathedral with my group of Paris photographers. The upper two images were made inside Our Lady of Chartres with a fisheye lens and…
June 5, 2019
Lost in the folds of a rose
It's easy for me to get lost in the folds of a rose. Each petal is a curve and a valley, and a landscape of pleasure. Why go anywhere else…
June 4, 2019
Baby’s Breath
I brought home some flowers, and arranged them into bouquets. A small sprig of Baby's Breath (Gyposphila) broke off, and I put it in a little glass jar. The stem…
June 3, 2019
Tokyo here we come
I'm organizing a photography week in Tokyo for next year. As part of my research and planning for this destination photo workshop I pulled some photos from my files that…
May 31, 2019
Garden Photography Workshop – Capturing the Great Gardens of Maine
I'll be teaching a week long course in garden photography at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine again this year. The dates are August 11-17, 2019. Click here for a…
May 28, 2019
Redone in an edit for a client
I reprocessed these two images as part of an edit for a longstanding client of mine. The upper image in panorama format is of a sunrise in the Carpathian Mountains…
May 26, 2019
Home, Peonies, and Irises
I've been traveling a month and a day---with x-ray photography, a lovely group in Paris (the after-hours session in Monet's garden at Giverny was probably my favorite part), and a…
May 23, 2019
The Scallop Shell Symbol on the Camino
If you've walked the Camino de Santiago, you'll have followed a route marked with scallop shell symbols. Along with many other pilgrims, I have a scallop shell hanging from my…
May 19, 2019
Garden along the Camino
Someone had built this garden beside the trail in the nook beside an old stone wall, with its rose trellis across a small spring. Now, half wild, the garden was…
May 16, 2019
Blue Arrow and Yellow Arrow
The algorithm for following one of the pilgrimage trails to Santiago de Compostela is really pretty simple: follow the yellow arrows, or the well-known Camino clamshell trail markers. If you…
May 14, 2019
Ponte Sampaio
Built on a Roman foundation, the Ponte Sampaio is the site of a decisive battle to liberate Galicia from Napoleon's French army under Marshal Ney in 1809. For more on…
May 13, 2019