Frankfurt Station
Like the nearly empty road in Poem of the Road, train stations give rise to existential questions. Where are we hurrying, and why? When a track and platform are empty,…
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September 1, 2018
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
X-Ray and “Fusion” X-Ray Images of Flowers
Here are some (more) x-rays and fusion x-rays of flowers. Fusion x-rays use post-production to combine "straight" x-rays with light box images of the same composition. For background information on…
August 30, 2018
Revealing the Unseen with X-Ray Photography of Flowers
I had to quickly change my plans due to a family emergency and fly home from Berlin. Now that I'm at home, it's good that things have settled down again,…
August 26, 2018
Campanulas X-Rays
I write this from the train from Frankfurt to Berlin, where Julian K. and I are sitting in a first class car at the all-important table, with the all-important wi-fi…
August 22, 2018
Top Photography Blog Honor; More Fusion X-Rays
I am honored to be included as one of the top fifteen photography blogs in the English language worldwide. This is good company to be in. Thanks for the award!…
August 17, 2018
Rockport Maine to New York City
Not so much in common. Maybe photography? Now onward, and across "The Pond."
August 14, 2018
Buddha
My class and I found this wonderful Buddha in the extraordinary Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine.
August 9, 2018
Maine Flowers
This was an in-class light box demo, using flowers that my wonderful workshop participants scavenged from the grounds of Maine Media Workshops.
August 8, 2018
Gardens of Maine
So far, this is a wonderful Garden Photography workshop despite the rather overpowering heat and humidity (a bit unexpected on the coast of Maine, even in August). There are fourteen…
August 8, 2018
The Maine Thing
My main thing in Maine is to photograph flowers and gardens---after all, that is the course I am teaching. But while here, certainly I am having some lobster. While I…
August 5, 2018
Once upon a Tintype
My uncle, at least I think he was my uncle, came back from far away places, India and beyond. He was footsore, and he wanted to rest for days, indeed…
August 1, 2018
Poem of the Road
The poem of the road is as old as the ages. The road beckons, tantalizes, leads us on. There are new vistas, new opportunities. We flee from danger down the…
July 26, 2018
Anthers in Love
Sometimes it is fun to get lost in the worlds of macro photography. Even the somewhat commonplace can become a different and intriguing universe. As in this conventionally lit, extreme…
July 11, 2018
Through a Glass Lightly
The last few years have been traveling years for me. This means time in restaurants. Sometimes alone. Waiting for food. Or with a crowd out eating, but alone inside. Either…
July 3, 2018
Solar Flare
Here's the latest in my series of mandala images on a light box, this one with petals circling around a sunflower. The outer ring consists of "stars" from a flowering…
June 29, 2018
Tulip Petal Detail after Karl Blossfeldt
Who knew that tulip stems could curl symmetrically with four looping branches? When I saw this, it reminded me of some of the flora photographed by Karl Blossfeldt. Blossfeldt's original…
June 26, 2018
Two from the iPhone files
Dogwood Flowers in a Bowl and Poppies and Echinaceas were both photographed with my iPhone camera. These were arrangements that were "collateral damage" to having flowers around from my garden…
June 21, 2018
Garden Flowers with Dogwood
This pair of images consists of a light box composition on white, and its LAB L-channel inversion on black. My thoughts are turning to Photographing Flowers for Transparency, as I…
June 19, 2018