digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
I woke this morning early to rain splattering against my window. Clearly the weather had deteriorated from the wonderful sunny-but-cloudy sky of the day before. I walked from the largish…
I forgot to mention that yesterday's story was written, and the images processed and uploaded, from the small bar across the street from my room. This was the only place…
This morning I hoisted my camera backpack, and headed out into gray weather with lowering clouds. During the course of this day I was to experience torrential rain, steady hail,…
Today I walked from Morgade to Portomarin, a somewhat bigger town. Portomarin seems like an interesting place. It was completely rebuilt, brick by brick, in the 1960s, when the original…
Yesterday was my first day hiking on the Camino de Santiago. I walked roughly twelve kilometers from Sarria to Morgade, a small hamlet. Twelve kilometers is about seven miles, and…
Today I arrived to begin my pilgrimage walking to Santiago de Compostela. I am to start tomorrow morning from Sarria. As you can see in the image, the River Sarria…
Waking up at the Mas de Garrigue, out my window I saw the soft light of morning on the wisteria vine on the tower. Every detail here is close to…
I photographed the ceiling of the Carmelite Chapel in Toulouse, France with my 8-15mm fisheye set to rectangular fisheye mode (meaning the 15mm setting, at 8mm this lens captures a…
At the Brasserie where I had a late lunch of poached salmon and ratatouille after flying in from Madrid to Toulouse, I saw these blue bottles lined up on the…
I got into Madrid this morning about 10AM, and with my door-to-door transit time approaching 24 hours, and the +9 hours time zone shift, I am definitely feeling asleep on…
From the median strip of nearby Arlington Avenue we clipped some branches from a beautiful, blooming apple tree. Arlington Ave is too busy for my taste, and one has to…
Oxalis is a modest plant, considered more weed than flower. The Oxalis shown here is Oxalis stricta, also known as yellow woodsorrel or sourgrass. In season, this Oxalis grows in…
These wonderful chocolates arrived today! Truly, I did nothing other than dispensing a little photography advice to deserve them. So thanks Jarek! Photographed with my iPhone and processed in Snapseed.…
In about a week I'll be leaving on a jet plane, and resuming the life of a peripatetic photographer after several months as a "homebody". I am looking forward very…
These images show common street grass stalks, probably in the Digitaria family, and most likely a variety of "crabgrass" (any botanists care to weigh in on this?). I harvested the street…
In September 2013 I spent a night in the guest cottage of famed photographer Edward Weston's house at Wildcat Hill along the Big Sur coast, following a workshop I gave…
Early this morning I came downstairs in my pajamas and found myself face-to-face with this wasp, somnolent before the heat of the day. I pulled some close-up gear together, and…
Thanks for participating in my previous request for comments on Decorative Grasses and Blades of Grass. Today's Which variation do you prefer? And, why? involves six images. What these variations have…