digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
I was walking north from the Oculus in downtown Manhattan along West Broadway. Back in the day, when I lived and worked out of my studio at 18th Street and…
Rhapsody in Tulip is my last 2023 image in the Artfully Random series. As I look back, this image speaks to me with its sense of color and rhythm: a…
A bouquet of luscious white roses came home one day. The interior curves of these roses attracted me with their grace and serenity, and I decided to photograph them close-up…
I have been photographing Irises close-up and personal. Irises are wonderful flowers, and I come back to them quite a bit. With these images, I used a simple setup with…
Nurture your creative garden and watch it bloom in 2024! With best wishes for the New Year from our family to yours. I am a realistic person, and I do…
"Lace" in this case seems to have been formed by the operations of time and small insects. Then again, beauty is where you find it. But with this composition there…
I've written about looking through my viewfinder with a macro lens on the camera and navigating a new country. The topography and contours of this "country" are unknown, and it…
I've been looking through and re-photographing old family photos because I am putting together a visual presentation for the memorial event for my parents Martin and Virginia Davis coming up…
I think that "subversive metaphoto" is a mouthful, but I kind of like the phrase. Ponderous? Sure. Pretentious? Double sure. But here's the thing. I spend much time thinking on…
If you would like to attend the special event remembering my father Martin Davis remotely via Zoom, please register using this link. The event is scheduled for Friday, January 26,…
Thank you to everyone who contributed, attended, and helped get the word out about today's Photographing Flowers for Transparency webinar benefiting Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Phyllis and I…
The Grand Shrine of Ise is dedicated to the sun goddess Amaterasu. One of Shinto's most sacred shrines, this complex of shrines, inner shrines, and sub-shrines covers a larger land…
The base photograph in this image captured a reflection of a radio tower in the moat of Hiroshima Castle---a factoid that may be irrelevant to the image. I added a…
Yesterday I spent most of my day building a mandala from flower petals on my light box. I used petals from alstroemeria, chrysanthemum, gerbera, some lobelia from the garden, and…
While in Kyoto I stopped by the Official Shop of the Kyoto Ceramic Art Association. There are 210 members of the association, and the works on display range from one-of-a-kind…
Understanding design patterns is a crucial part of construction of almost anything from buildings to object-oriented software. Visual design patterns originally derived from architecture, and are bedrock to composition; both…
If you are in the New York area, please consider attending a special event in honor of my father, Martin Davis, who died earlier this year. The event is hosted…
For the image of Bamboo Woods near Kyoto, I made seven exposures on my tripod at shutter speeds ranging from 1/2 a second to 20 seconds, varying each exposure by about…