I am very pleased with a new reader comment on Amazon regarding my Yosemite Dreaming postcard book: "These cards are among the most beautiful I've ordered. The comments I've received…
Every handmade artist book deserves an elegant presentation box, and Botanique is no exception. As you can see in the photo (left), the box for Botanique is lovingly hand assembled. All the…
One of my favorite places to photograph in the Mission District of San Francisco is Clarion Alley---a very magical but somewhat seedy place. Paintings cover the walls, and they are…
In the Pixar movie Finding Nemo one of the characters is a shark named Bruce in a 12-step program. Bruce has extremely dangerous looking teeth, and clearly has an appetite…
I've been spending time in my garden this week, getting it ready for spring. Actually, around here it is spring already, with sunny weather in the sixties. My poppy seedlings…
In this image of the Bay Bridge the moon seems to be "captured" within the tower of the Bay Bridge. The image is a hand-HDR blend of six exposures at…
The San Francisco Moonrise Adventure workshop on Saturday was a smashing success. Despite some unexpected logistical difficulties---due to a demonstration on Market Street---we settled into our Embarcadero waterfront location in…
The pages of Botanique---my hand made, limited edition artist book---have all been printed. Some of them are shown here on the table formerly known as our dining room table. You…
Closely related to the question of "how low can you go" is the philosophical issue of, "how simple can you get?" Images like Story of O and Line Dance (below)…
I walked along the trail beside San Francisco Bay near Richmond, California. My idea was to capture sunset on the mudflats of the Bay at low tide. When I traversed…
Sunset was spectacular here in the San Francisco Bay area yesterday. I shot west out to the Pacific Ocean from Sutro Baths, shown here with a long enough exposure (15…
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…
Not far as the crow flies from the glamorous and scenic parts of San Francisco lies a moldering waterfront south along San Francisco Bay. The structures look like they belong…
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…
For many years one of the pleasures of the two-mile hike down to Tennessee Beach in the Marin Headlands has been to view the wonderful hole in the cliff on…