Before the LAB Color Creates
I'm using this image as one of the starting examples for the new course I am recording next week on working with creative LAB color in Photoshop. Click here for…
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
I'm using this image as one of the starting examples for the new course I am recording next week on working with creative LAB color in Photoshop. Click here for…
The marble languidly perches on the cornice of the volumes of the collected New Yorker cartoons, high above the carpet. "Marble, don't jump, " I cry, as I spring into…
I am giving three flower-related photography workshops in 2019. I have been asked a number of times how these workshops differ, and how they overlap---so I'd like to make things…
In 2019 I am looking forward to another exciting year, with travel, creative projects, books to deliver, more online courses, and workshops. If you are interested in my workshops, I…
The coming of a new year brings reflections on the year that has past, thoughts appropriate to the last day or first day of a year, and ideas about new…
My favorite comment on this series of images, on #3, found over on Instagram: "I've sat here a long time looking at this!"
For the past few days of the break between Christmas and New Years, I have been playing with light. Of course, the word photography is derived from "writing with light"---and…
2018 has been quite a year in art for me. Travel has included the Southwest of France, the Balearic Islands, a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, teaching at Maine…
The Star Gazer Lily is more correctly StarGazer Lily or Lillium 'StarGazer', with "StarGazer" crammed together in one word. This Asiatic Lily is a fairly recent hybridization (circa 1974) of…
Somewhat in the spirit of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, maybe it is all a misunderstanding on the cosmic scale, with the universe a multidimensional freeway interchange where we've…
Life is strange. We take inspiration, and the other self-actualization needs and desires that are high up the Maslow hierarchy, where we can find them. From within the prison of…
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The Steamboat Slough Bridge, shown here from underneath, was built in 1924. According to HistoricBridges.org, this bridge is a good example of a Strauss heel-trunnion bascule bridge. Despite some repair…
This image and the two other abstracts shown in a previous story were constructed by allowing strong sunlight to pass through bottles filled with fluid (dark brown maple syrup and…
Here's a photographic mystery for you! Can you reverse engineer these abstracts? As a hint, these were essentially created in the camera, with very minimal Photoshop processing in post-production (just…
Wandering through the Sicilian village of Cefalu, I made my way to the harbor jetty. Looking back at the whitewashed village, it was clear that from a monochromatic perspective, the…
In downtown Palermo, Sicily, at the intersection of Via Maqueda and Via Vittorio Emanuele is an ornate and baroque piazza, surrounded by four symmetrical structures with statues in niches. Dubbed…
On my way into Trapani, a refugee from my hotel in Palermo, I pulled the car over to stop at a MacDonald's on the outskirts of town to take advantage…