digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
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…
This year, 2018, has been a little sparse for me photographically so far (but see Red Tulips and New Year's Day Design). I think of this as a "pause that…
Our very best wishes for a happy, healthy, prosperous, and creative 2018 from our family to yours! For a somewhat less anodyne New Year's message: with the world standing on…
On Christmas Day, the guests had left. The presents were unwrapped and enjoyed. OK, I admit I'd heard the yodeling pickle (a gag gift that Julian got for Mathew) one…
We wish you a great holiday season, and may prosperity and the light of creativity shine forth for you in the coming year. Peace and goodwill to all! Check out…
Any compilation of one's best work for a given time frame has to be somewhat arbitrary. With 2017, for me this is particularly the case. Once again, I've been at…
Here are two images from my visit to the Western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in November (click each image to view them larger).
At dusk the outer cliffs of the Headlands become shrouded in mystery. Point Bonita Lighthouse guards the approach to the Golden Gate, as it has since the days of steamships.…
I photographed this white Amaryllis unfurling using dappled and diffused sunlight for illumination, and a black velvet cloth for the background. The image is comprised of three exposures, each using…
This is an image of an orchid I made today with a new lens, the 85mm f/1.8 Lensbaby Velvet. This is a lens designed to create a glowing effect in…
Yesterday was Phyllis's mom Barbara's 90th birthday, and our son Nicky's 16th birthday. So Phyllis baked a cakes, and as you see in the photo put 106 lit candles on…