digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Always nice to photograph interesting windows and doors. Window (above) photographed in the back streets of St Emilion, France. Door (below) an iPhone capture in Bordeilles, with the Waterlogue version…
To make these images of Brantome Abbey (above) and the so-called "dog-leg" bridge in Brantome ("dog-leg" because there is a 90 degree bend in its crossing of the Dronne River,…
This is Le Moulin de l'Abbaye, the mill of the Abbey, and the hotel we will be based in Brantome, France for exploring the Dordogne countryside. Two different interpretations! Above:…
There's something very tricky about creating images that capture a truly vast wonder of the world such as the Grand Canyon or the Son Doong Cave. The sense of scale…
Son Doong Cave---Wind River Cave---is located in the impenetrable mountainous jungles along the old Ho Chi Minh trail on the Vietnamese side of the Vietnam-Laos border. To get to the cave,…
The Long Bien Bridge stretches across the Red River from Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a cantilevered iron structure designed in the studio of Gustav Eiffel. Strategically important because it connects…
This is a photo of my wonderful father Martin Davis that I recently scanned and retouched to restore some damage. Martin thinks it was taken when he was sixteen and…
Walking south from Bethesda Fountain to get to my dinner appointment on West 57th Street, I stopped by a body of water at the southeast corner of Central Park to…
I'm pleased to share with you my presentation on Photographing Flowers for Transparency at New York's School of Visual Arts in the Masters in Digital Photography program. Enjoy! If for…
I was in New York as part of a trip to promote my new book The Photographer's Black & White Handbook. My presentation at B&H Photo was well attended and…
In recent years I've seen much of the world. All this traveling has led to photography of some very beautiful and interesting places. So when I show my work, not…
On my recent trip, I stayed in New York in the belly of the beast, in a nice Eurostyle hotel at the corner of Tenth Ave and 42nd Street. Literally…
The dictionary says that oculus is a fancy term for a round, eyelike opening. The term has been borrowed for a system of virtual reality headsets, and I have photographed a rock…
Today I guest-hosted an informal Meetup of New York photographers. We gathered at the bridge tower on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge. There was a great deal of…
I will be in New York City for a brief trip from Monday February 20 until Friday February 24, 2017 in honor of the publication of my new book The…
In my garden in the rain the hellebores are in bloom. These lovely bell shaped flowers face downward in nature in a wide variety of colors and internal configurations. It's…
Dark of the Moon Night Photography in the Eastern Sierra Three nights; arriving Friday, October 20, 2017 and departing Monday, October 23, 2017 ***Some participants may choose to arrive late…
It's a funny thing: sometimes one doesn't see what one has been photographing until after the fact, when there's an obvious collection of similar images. Perhaps this collection of similars…