Summer Experiment
Following up on Summer Experiment 1, here is another version!
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July 12, 2017
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Coat of Many Colors and Church of Black and White
Coming up from air with dandelions, I contemplated life, art, and my color palette. What about introducing chromatics to my puffy friends? I tried a number of approaches, and in…
July 11, 2017
Photograph Southwestern France in April, 2018—Only a few spaces left!
Grab your camera and come with me on a photographic adventure to the "deep France" of the Lot River valley. Starting Thursday, April 19, 2018 (leave the States on the…
July 10, 2017
Strength in Numbers: One more seed
For more seed and puffy-thing images, check out Suite of Seeds! These seed pods and seeds are amazing when you examine them up very close (check out the Dandelion Seed…
July 9, 2017
Suite of Seeds—Which one do you like best?
Over the past several days I have photographed seed pods, aiming in many cases for an expressionistic sense of line rather than to capture literal form, to use photography as…
July 8, 2017
Dawn on Lake Como
I've been in Italy only a couple of days, and already it seems like there have been some incredible adventures (but not much sleep). This morning I woke in the…
July 7, 2017
Matilija Poppies and Mallows
You got to love the Matilija Poppy, a California native, with its wonderful huge yellow center and puffy white petals. The poppies are of the Romneya genus (so are neither…
June 23, 2017
Special Snowflake
No, this is not really a snowflake at all. It's a macro photo of the seed pod of a Gaillardia ("blanket flower") [below] and the all 3-channels LAB inversion of the…
June 20, 2017
Ladybird Poppy
Yesterday was a cool Father's Day. I woke to freshly brewed coffee and cards from the kids. Then I went with Phyllis, my own wonder woman, to see the new…
June 19, 2017
This Father Gives Thanks
On this Father's Day, I want to give thanks for the miracle that is Katie Rose, and for all my kids. Thanks for my family. And thanks to all fathers who…
June 18, 2017
Son Doong Cave
The interior landscape of Son Doong Cave is ethereal and fantastic. Keep in mind that this mystical landscape is cloaked in darkness. The camera sees far more than the naked…
June 9, 2017
Shameless Quote Department
"Harold Davis is the digital black and white equal of Ansel Adams’s traditional wet photography. Adams would be awed by Davis’s work. In The Photographer’s Black and White Handbook Davis…
June 4, 2017
The Amazing World of Flowers
One of the things I love most about flower photography is that it compels one to look closely at flowers. The more you look, the more you see! What a…
May 27, 2017
Recent Flower Photos
I'm happy to take advantage of the wonderful spring flowers this year here in California, and make up for the time I was traveling with some extensive flower photography! Here…
May 25, 2017
Upcoming Flower Photography Workshop—A Few Spaces Available—Other Updates
We have only a few spaces open in my upcoming Flower Photography Intensive 4-Day Workshop here In Berkeley California coming next month, June 22-25, 2017. This will be a great time…
May 22, 2017
Home is Best…with Flower Photography
As the saying goes, "You may travel east, you may travel west, but in your heart you know home is best!" In the past two months, I have traveled east…
May 17, 2017
Pear (or Pair)
Good to be home to a land of lush florals and fruit supreme, always with anthropomorphic potential. Taking a little time to be laid back, while Phyllis and I consider…
May 16, 2017
Center of Soller
This is a color and a black & white version of the center of the town of Soller, Mallorca, Spain, seen from high up on the roof of the hotel…
May 3, 2017