digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
In my fantasy, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) traveled shortly after the first world war from Texas where she taught drawing to bored college students to New York to meet with her…
As summer becomes full and the days of July rush by, the dahlias are in bloom. Each dalia is different, a unique world unto itself. Some of them remind me…
Artichokes are good to eat. They are a real treat. You peel the leaves to the "meat" inside, in a spiral motion that echoes the visual path in this great,…
We're very pleased to have shipped #17 (out of 25) of the edition of Botanique to a collector in Ohio (thank you!). The photo below shows the display print of Red…
As the official start to summer swings into gear, how wonderful to arrange a light box bouquet. The bouquet is anchored with two-week Iris (also called "Fortnight Lily," Dietes iridioides, a…
In the pre-dawn cool I walked around the house and down to our dahlia bed in the side yard. There was one perfect white blossom. I cropped it, and placed…
We'll be holding a full weekend Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop Saturday August 6 - Sunday August 7, 2022 here on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. This…
Phyllis brought a Phalaenopsis ("moth orchid") home for a short visit to our sunny living room. Leaving the orchid in its decorative pot, I photographed the blossoms using a vertical…
I cut a stalk of Campanulas ("Canterbury Bells") from the garden. I laid the bunch gently on my light box for a sequence of high-key captures (below). Often, photography of…
As I've previously noted, I seem to spend a lot of time photographing underneath bridges. The beauty of the scene from the deck of a bridge is often pretty self-evident. On…
I've been experimenting with creating images that look a little like a wall of flowers one might see at a florist shop. From a set design viewpoint, an important challenge…
Browsing the Internet, I came across a copy of my Water Lilies poster for sale. The poster dates to 1980, and the image was probably my first widely published photo…
Dear Photographers and Fellow Travelers: We're very excited that the 2022 live-and-in-person Photographing Flowers for Transparency weekend workshop, here in Berkeley, California in August, is gaining momentum. There are still some…
As an archetype, "James Bond" is deeply embedded for better and worse somewhere not far below the surface of cis-Males of my generation. But what if James Bond had liked…
Imagine you are in a hospital bed. The bed is in a room that was meant to be a single, but now has two beds and two occupants. The other…
This pilgrim is home early. After all, a pilgrim on the Camino de Santiago who cannot walk is a fairly immobile oxymoron. It was a scramble to get out of…
So I guess I am a bad pilgrim. On account of my blisters, I am staying off my feet, as they advised me at the Pilgrim's service at Queens Hospital…
For days after the 33km march in the broiling sun out of Leon I had been nursing a big blister on the bottom pad of my left foot. It was…