digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
I am very excited that Botanique is finally becoming real. Botanique is my limited edition, handmade book of floral prints, partially funded by Kickstarter (thanks Kickstarter sponsors so much!). The…
This is an HDR fisheye shot looking up at the ceiling of the Stanford Memorial Church and its rather wonderful mosaics.
This Magnolia stellata was clipped from a flowering hedge in my neighborhood that borders a major avenue and photographed for maximum translucency. It makes a great print on Kozo washi…
In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle ice-nine is a crystal with the power to freeze all life on earth, perhaps as I did with these yellow roses. Not really! Nor…
The idea of this night shot along the famous curves of Lombard Street in San Francisco was to use my shutter speed setting creatively to get the desired effect with…
Art is where you find it. I found this light phenomenon---caused by the reflections off two parked cars---when I came out from a Costco shopping adventure with the kids. Shot…
An expression of joy and hope with the coming of a new year can be lavish in size, or small indeed. This dandelion, shot from below and skyward, exhibits points…
My very best wishes for a happy and wonderful 2013! May you find peace, love, and magic---both in photography, and in life. I've heard the saying that if you want…
I lead a night photography workshop in the Bristlecone Pines in the White Mountains in eastern California every year. So of course I shoot night images while I am there. But…
Rainy season in Northern California can seem endless, and when it does rain for days the windows on the inside of my house steam up with myriad waterdrops. These droplets…
A monster low tide occurred at the same time as the early winter sunset. Taking advantage of this conjunction, a friend and I wandered out on Duxbury Reef. Duxbury Reef, shown in…
Best wishes from Harold, Phyllis, and the Davis family for a happy holiday and a wonderful 2013!
Come say hello to me at the Midwinter Print Fair hosted by PHOTO, Fine Art Photography in Oakland, California. I'll be there Friday, January 4 and Saturday, January 5 along with…
The idea behind Within the Canvas (below) is to show the model emerging from a background. It is not clear where the model begins and where the model ends. Model and…
For the past several days we've had very wet and windy weather---the epitome of winter's rainy season in the San Francisco Bay area. During an interlude in this weather I…
We recently celebrated Nicky's eleventh birthday. The fedora hat shown in this photo was one of the birthday presents he had requested. I don't know where he gets his sense…
Often in life it's really hard to do things that matter. In The War of Art Steven Pressfield calls the force that makes accomplishment so hard resistance: "Are you are writer…
What is it about reflections that draw us in? The initial fascination lies with the mirror world aspect of something reflected. Of course, the reflection is mostly like our world---but it differs.…