digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
In the practice of modern photography, an exposure as long as five minutes duration during daytime hours seems like eternity. This is particularly true in the context of the raging…
I am a great fan of artistic calligraphy, particularly as seen in Japan and in historic Islamic cultures. So when I arranged these flowers on my light box I tried…
This is the box of pastels that Katie Rose loves to use to make her art. You can see she uses the pastels hard, but treats them with great care,…
I'm very pleased and excited to be leading a sold-out session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency next weekend here in Berkeley, CA. If this topic interests you, we are running…
Being a Professional Artist Means Business As a successful professional artist and photographer—and, not entirely coincidentally, a business person—I am aware that sometimes you have to spend money to make…
There's nothing I like better than to capture romantic landscapes. Of course, any landscape can be romantic in the right light, and almost any landscape can be grim in harsh…
This one is more colorful than the white-on-white Phalaenopsis I photographed yesterday!
Nice to be back to photographing flowers on my light box after so many adventures in the field...starting with this orchid blossom!
The special characteristics of light at sunset---first the "golden hour," followed by the "blue hour"---are well known to all serious landscape photographers. Indeed, the quality of the light and the…
The Bramante Stairs is a double helix staircase, meaning it consists of two independent helical stairs in the same vertical space, allowing one person to ascend and another to descend, without…
This field has been plowed. It is autumn, and the land is bare, waiting in lengthy passivity for the new crops of spring to begin to show. The patterns in…
It's my personality for my "eyes to be bigger than my stomach," my artistic ego to be large, and my ability to say no to a possible photo nil regardless…
Visiting the Vatican Museum is an affair of moving with and through crowds. Most are in densely packed "schools of fish" (in tour groups). Others lumber slowly, couples or small…
From the tower hanging above the central piazza in the Tuscan hill town of Montepulciano, I heard lucid guitar chords rising on the wind. I looked down to find the musician.…
Rising not quite with the sun, on my way over to the breakfast room, I saw the landscape below with patches of fog, a veritable pattern of lights and darks,…
The Dolomites, in northeastern Italy, are a spectacular range of pinnacles forming the southern reaches of the Alps. These mountains have characteristically grand rock formations, and if you like landscape…