Star Gazer Lily
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…
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December 20, 2018
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Cosmic Misunderstanding
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…
December 17, 2018
Life Is Strange—Further Abstractions and some Abstract Thoughts
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…
December 16, 2018
Easy Travel to Other Planets
Related stories: The Making of the Abstractions; Abstracts and a Photographic Mystery; More Abstractions!
December 14, 2018
Exploring the Sacramento Delta
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…
December 13, 2018
The Making of the Abstractions
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…
December 10, 2018
Abstracts and a Photographic Mystery
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…
December 9, 2018
Cefalu
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…
December 7, 2018
Correlation versus Causality
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…
December 4, 2018
Door in Trapani
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…
December 2, 2018
Patterns in Paris
The common theme in these three monochromatic images taken in Paris is that they are about patterns---as seen in three dimensional architectural objects, but reduced to two apparent planes. And…
November 30, 2018
Greetings from a peripatetic photographer and writer!
I've just returned from a voyage to Paris, then leading a group in Malta, followed by a week exploring Sicily. Prior to this, in October I was on a road…
November 29, 2018
Badlands Composition and Print
The badlands in this image are along the middle fork of the Kings River, photographed from a higher elevation. The point of this fairly abstract monochromatic composition is the contrast…
November 27, 2018
Understanding Exposure 101
By popular request, I've posted the informational slides from my Getting Your Camera Off Auto presentation in a new slideshow FAQ, Understanding Exposure 101.
November 26, 2018
Pano of the Sierra Crest Print “curing”
I just made this large panoramic print of the High Sierra Crest on commission via Weston Gallery on Moab Paper Juniper Baryta Rag! The print is shown here curing, with…
November 25, 2018
Coming Home
On my way home from Palermo to San Francisco, I've had to change planes a couple of times, and am overnighting at Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) near Paris. Travel…
November 19, 2018
Patterns that are big, patterns that are small
Composition in photography is in large part about bringing an ordered visual experience to the chaotic reality of our world. This means finding, and emphasizing, patterns: patterns that are big,…
November 17, 2018
Accordion Player
Winding down the steep, narrow streets of the medieval Sicilian town of Cefalu towards the seaward ramparts, I could hear faintly some rather delicious accordion music. Getting closer, he sat…
November 15, 2018