Happy Birthday, Martin
Recently we celebrated my Dad's 88th birthday. My Dad, Martin Davis, is very sweet, intelligent, and completely engaged with the world---and he blew out the candles on his cake on…
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March 10, 2016
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Multnomah Falls Redux
This is Multnomah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge photographed with my DSLR, in compare and contrast mode with my iPhone capture of the same location. I used my Nikon…
March 8, 2016
Waterfall after Turner
This is a close-in view of White River Falls. Standing by the edge of the falls, the whole world seemed loud and in motion. My intention was to use the…
March 4, 2016
Eye of the Cave Panorama
This is a panorama view from behind Upper Horsetail Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. I shot the panorama in fourteen vertical photos, with each capture a RAW file translated…
March 2, 2016
Under the Yaquina Bay Bridge
The Yaquina Bay Bridge is a spectacular structure along the coast of Oregon. It's easy to get underneath to photograph, as shown in this image. Do you prefer the color…
March 1, 2016
Yaquina Bay Bridge
In the fog, the Yaquina Bay Bridge seemed to stretch on forever. The ending was obscure, and vanishingly difficult to find.
February 26, 2016
From Darkness into Light
Photography is famously about "writing with light"---or rendering light. In fact, light is integral to photography. You can't photograph a physical object. You can only capture the light reflected or…
February 25, 2016
Fairy Falls
Yesterday, after photographing Multnomah Falls, I walked up the icy path to Benson Bridge. From this bridge, I climbed the numbered switchbacks to the top of Multnomah Falls. From the…
February 24, 2016
Cold is the colour of crystal
"Cold is the colour of crystal the snowlight That falls from the heavenly skies"---Annie Lennox Related image: White River Falls. Thanks to @estatik on Flickr.
February 23, 2016
White River Falls
On my long drive up eastern Oregon, shortly before I got to the Columbia Gorge, I passed White River Falls, shown in the photo. White River Falls State Park was…
February 22, 2016
Human Spiral—Nautilus
This nine-image multiple exposure, combined in-camera another image in the same series, Rondo, reminds me of a living organism, or spiral shell such as the Nautilus.
February 21, 2016
Rondo
About the image: This is an in-camera multiple exposure. The ten exposures were combined in the camera using auto-gain. The model was Amelia Simone, who was wearing the red underwear…
February 20, 2016
Cymbidium Orchid
The Cymbidium orchid shown below in four variations photographed for transparency on a light box was to feature in its own drama of creative destruction: with the blossoms surgically taken…
February 16, 2016
Lonely Islet Print Collected
A large print of my Lonely Islet was purchased for the collection of the international law firm Simpson Thacher. My print will hang in the offices of the appellate practice…
February 13, 2016
Orchids in a Blue Bowl
I photographed these Cymbidium orchid blossoms in a blue bowl placed on a black velvet background. Lighting was natural, ambient sunlight bounced off white boards and reflectors. Exposure and processing…
February 12, 2016
Totem and Taboo
The title I've given this image, Totem and Taboo, is in part a reference to Sigmund Freud's collection of essays of the same name. Freud combined anthropology with concepts of…
February 4, 2016
Comparative Motion
Dead Tree, Seascape, and Sunset is an exercise in capturing comparative motion over the course of a fairly long exposure (ten seconds). The surf was rolling in below the bluff,…
February 3, 2016