Prague Metamorphosis
With Prague's grand castles and elegant squares overflowing with happy visitors and marquee shopping it is easy to forget that this is also the city of Franz Kafka. Metamorphosis happens…
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June 25, 2015
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Prague Sunset
Getting to Prague from the Bay area took a bit of travel time. I know, less than in covered wagon and sail ship times, but still it was into the…
June 24, 2015
Degrees of Translucency
Transparency means something one can look through with clarity, like a sheet of glass or plastic. So what we are interested in is really translucency---the state or condition of being translucent,…
June 20, 2015
Salutation to the Sun
I am taking a little time to process some of the botanical images I've shot so far this year. Soon I will be moving on to photograph the old stones…
June 19, 2015
Two Botanicals
The other day I enjoyed photographing and presenting some local flowers cut from the neighborhood in a fairly traditional way so that the finished images appear at first glance much…
June 10, 2015
Photographic Tour to Romantic Southwest France in April, 2016
What: A week with a small compatible group of photographers in a 15th Century castle in the lush countryside of southwest France in the springtime. Where: Mas de Garrigue, a…
June 8, 2015
Views of Japan
Hokusai, the famous Japanese woodblock print artist of the Edo period, created many views of Japan that included Mt Fuji, but the one shown here was probably not in his…
June 2, 2015
Sweet Pea after O’Keeffe
After seeing some of my photos mistaken for O'Keeffe's luscious flower paintings, I took another look at the wondrous botanical art of Georgia O'Keeffe. The sensuous, indeed sexual, nature of…
May 26, 2015
Dogwood & Friends
A Matilija Poppy pokes out in the middle of a covert of flowering dogwood, cosmos, old-fashioned roses, echinacea, and climbing mallows. Enjoy! Photographed straight down on my light box for…
May 24, 2015
Floral Fantasies
These floral fantasies are created and photographed as collages on the light box, then processing in Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop, Nik, Topaz, and using LAB color adjustments. What fun! Photographed…
May 21, 2015
Historic D Ranch, Point Reyes
Point Reyes National Seashore is probably unique among the American National Parks in that this public land is shared with working cattle and dairy ranches. These ranches date from the…
May 19, 2015
An angel watching out for me
The barista at Farley's in Emeryville, California makes the nicest designs in the Latte foam!
May 14, 2015
Flickr and a perfect trifecta of tagging errors
Long-time readers of my blog will know that I am no fan of the perspicacity and wisdom of the powers-that-be at Flickr and their Yahoo masters. This is despite the…
May 13, 2015
Mallow
Like Clematis this is a single blossom, photographed on a light box, inverted to black in LAB, and then converted to monochrome using a virtual Infrared filter. The steps are…
May 12, 2015
Pont Valentre
The ancient Pont Valentre crosses a loop in the Lot River at the city of Cahors in southwestern France. The tower in the middle of the river of this fortified…
May 4, 2015
Essays in Translucency
Related stories: The Virtues of Translucency; Clematis; Miraculum Flores.
May 3, 2015
Miraculum Flores
Flowers are a miracle! This is a spring in Berkeley, California that is wondrous in terms of blossoms, and I have been enjoying it and photographing up a floral storm,…
May 1, 2015
Clematis
To photograph this Clematis Bee's Jubilee blossom, I placed it on a light box and photographed it straight down using a tripod with a Nikon D810 and my special Zeiss…
April 29, 2015