digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This is a mandala-shaped arrangement of petals on a light box around a central Proteus.
Related image: Osteospermum. Would you like to learn how to make images like this using a light box? We still have a few spaces left in our June session of…
Wimpy was a name of a chain of burger restaurants that were popular back in the day in England (I believe the Wimpy chain began life in South Africa). Wimpy…
Starting to scan some slides. This one is circa 1980.
Some related reading (helps to explain where I am coming from): On Art and Beauty. Related images: Floral Mandala; Petals of the Rainbow; It starts with a photo; It starts…