Street Grasses
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…
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April 5, 2018
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Edward Weston’s Kitchen
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…
March 31, 2018
I Wasp Eye
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…
March 29, 2018
Color Field of Flowers
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…
March 28, 2018
Decorative Grasses
Thanks for all the input on my Blades of Grass series. I appreciate the (varied) input. Here's another sequence of Decorative Grasses. Which is your favorite variation, and why? I particularly…
March 27, 2018
Egg
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Coming downstairs on a school-day morning, I found a boiled egg that Nicky spurned alone in a small white bowl. The bowl…
March 25, 2018
I am deleting my Facebook account in one week
I am deleting my Facebook account one week from today. The week's delay is to give my real friends on Facebook, many of whom hail from other parts of the…
March 22, 2018
Avatar or Artifact?
I made this image in collaboration with the beautiful model Muirina Fae. It's an in-camera multiple exposure. There are some more details about how I made the image below. If…
March 15, 2018
New print on Moab Entrada Rag Textured
As you can see here, I just made a new print on Moab Entrada Rag Textured. I'm pleased with the way this came out, and I think the moderate texture…
March 8, 2018
Ask Me Anything about Creativity and Inspiration
I am hosting an event on the Ask Me Anything feed. The way this works is that folks post questions (hence the "Ask Me Anything") and I answer them, hopefully…
February 27, 2018
Red Anemone
Yesterday we decided it was time to do some spring planting so I would have flowers to photograph and so our garden would look pretty. We came home with a…
February 26, 2018
Star Magnolia
Star Magnolia---magnolia stellata---is one of my favorite flowers. In the past I've photographed magnolia stellata for transparency here, as an upright branch, and as a light box panorama. The two…
February 12, 2018
Into the Third Dimension
I've had fun with a genre of light box work recently that involves arranging petals into abstract compositions. This is quite different conceptually from my botanical art---I use the petals like…
February 8, 2018
Photographing Flowers for Transparency Video at SVA
If you are interested in my photographing flowers for transparency images and techniques, you might like a video of my presentation about a year ago on this topic at the…
February 4, 2018
Studies in Petals
This is a mandala-shaped arrangement of petals on a light box around a central Proteus.
January 25, 2018