Architectonica Spiral
Commonly called the Sundial shell, Architectonica is small. The specimen shown in this photo is probably less than an inch across. Turn the shell over, and there's a tiny spiral…
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Commonly called the Sundial shell, Architectonica is small. The specimen shown in this photo is probably less than an inch across. Turn the shell over, and there's a tiny spiral…
I am writing this story to let you know about an exciting new development. Thanks to new advanced technology, I am now able to create hand-crafted images up to 44 x 72 inches, printing them on…
On my way home from photographing in the University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum I drove up the spectacular San Mateo coast (south of San Francisco). I reached the Pigeon…
We are very pleased to announce that Cameron + Company has released three postcard books of my work. Each of the three postcard books each contain twenty detachable postcards. They are…
Wandering downtown San Francisco with two photographic companions we decided to visit the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. This turned out to be a great location for monochromatic HDR photography.…
If you've been following my blog or my Flickr stream you may have noticed more than the usual proportion of extreme macro shots involving waterdrops. Well, I do love shooting…
On a walk around the block with the kids yesterday I saw this translucent wild ginger leaf. I snipped it, brought it home, and shot it on my lightbox. This…
Monochromatic photography looks back to the glorious aesthetics of the classical era of film photography. At the same time, the world has moved on and revolutionary advances in technology have made…
Most photographers have bucket lists of things they'd like to photograph before they die. Flowering quince---because of the lushness of the blossoms contrasted with the sparseness of the stems--has long…
I've had a little time lately to shoot more flowers on white. These two floral arrangements feature orchids---buying them for photography seemed a little expensive at the time, but in…
Are you what you photograph? They say, "You are what you eat." In a certain simplisitic sense this is obviously true. Therefore, if you photograph what you eat then you…
As a professional photographer I almost always use my camera in manual exposure mode. Most of the time I have no use for programmed automatic or semi-automatic modes---or, God forbid, one…
To create these images, I arranged flowers on a lightbox that was proportionally much wider than it was tall. Next, I shot straight down with a macro lens, bracketing for…
Over the winter holidays I took our boys on a "field trip" to Fort Ross State Historic Park. Fort Ross marks the furthest point south of the expansion of the…
On Christmas Day I calculated that from the summit of Wildcat Peak the sun would set directly behind the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge. This seemed like a great excuse…
The Paperwhite, Narcissus papyraceus, is a small white flower related to the Daffodil. Grown from a bulb, the plant is originally from the Mediterranean basin. It's commonly thought of as…
The eye believes what it thinks it sees. This allows us to enjoy magic shows, movies, and two-dimensional art such as painting and photography. Any two-dimensional representation of three dimensions…
We've had a spate of minor---but surprisingly expensive---plumbing repairs recently. I took advantage of one of these to shoot our new kitchen faucet with my 200mm macro lens. Who knew…