Flores Pano on Black, and on White
I've been doing a great deal of black and white work for my forthcoming book from Monacelli Press, so its nice to take a color break with a color image,…
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July 15, 2016
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Handsome Gargoyle Devil and the Pinhole Effect
A gargoyle is a carved grotesque, with (sometimes) the practical function of serving as a down spout for rain, and often the emotional purpose of warding off evil spirits. The…
July 13, 2016
Kira in a Cafe
For the demonstration of how to add a post-production selective soft focus using an Iris Blur for my forthcoming book from Monacelli Press, The Photographer's Black and White Handbook, I…
July 10, 2016
From iPhone to ART: A weekend iPhonegraphy workshop with Harold Davis
From iPhone to ART: The Art of iPhoneography A Two-Day Weekend Workshop with Harold Davis, Saturday January 28 - Sunday January 29, 2017. This workshop will be hosted in Berkeley,…
July 2, 2016
Eschew the Routine
Yesterday was going to be a day of routine and mundane tasks: bookkeeping, workflow management, writing business emails, and so on. As a professional photographer and artist, this stuff has…
June 26, 2016
Dragon of the Redwoods
Update: The green pattern at the bottom of the image is caused by reflection from the sensor into the lens and from there back to the sensor. Wandering in a Californian coastal…
June 23, 2016
First-Order Fresnel Lens at Point Reyes Lighthouse
This is an image of the first-order Fresnel lens inside the Point Reyes Lighthouse on the western tip of Point Reyes, California. According to the Point Reyes National Seashore website,…
June 20, 2016
Garden Party
The flowers in my garden decided to have a party. The Fourth of July Roses brought the noise makers and musical instruments. The irises brought the guacamole and dip. The…
June 15, 2016
Webinar Recording Topaz Labs Discount Code
The recording of my Travel Photography webinar for Topaz Labs will be available for replay soon on YouTube and the Topaz website. In the meantime, for the next few days,…
June 15, 2016
Tulip Blast
In a week full of family activities and graduations (Julian from high school, Nicky from middle school, and Mathew from elementary school) I managed to take some time out to…
June 13, 2016
Landscape at Sunrise
At sunrise on a hill facing the ancient town of Cordes-sur-Ciel I was out with my camera and tripod. This was a classical view. Probably the track you see in…
June 8, 2016
More Real than Reality
What if the the world of reflections is more real than the world of reality? That's the question posed by Abbaye Sainte-Foy de Conques, photographed from a second-story restaurant window in the…
June 5, 2016
Free Topaz Webinar on June 14
Travel Photography with Harold Davis and Topaz is a free live webinar scheduled for Tuesday June 14, 2016 at 2 PM Pacific Time. While the webinar is free, to attend…
June 4, 2016
Photographed with a DSLR and Processed on My iPhone!
I photographed these three images with my "Big Boy" camera---a Nikon DSLR---then copied them to my iPhone and processed them on my iPhone using the Waterlogue app. The original images…
June 1, 2016
Nocturnes Exhibition and Competition at the Southeast Center for Photography
I am the juror for Nocturnes a competition and exhibition based around night photography at the Southeast Center for Photography. Here's the description: A nocturne is a musical composition that is…
May 25, 2016
Morning Mist
In the early morning in the Lot River Valley fog follows the course of the river, shown here behind a stand of trees and in front of the cliffs on…
May 21, 2016
Country Rainbow
To paraphrase Ansel Adams, if you don't go out in the rain, you will never get to photograph the clearing storm. As I explored the ancient town of Cordes sur…
May 20, 2016