In New York's Central Park the lush---but artificial---landscapes make the cityscape look almost pastoral in its beauty. Central Park is the landscape architecture masterpiece of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert…
If you go into any restaurant these days and look at the diners who are eating alone, most of them are likely to be playing with their smartphones. Some of…
On a rooftop high above New York the lights of the city sparkled in the night. From so far above even the noise of the city was muted---all I could…
At the 9/11 Memorial the water pours endlessly down into what used to be the cellars of the World Trade Towers. This is a place of sad and melancholy wonder---and…
So far as I know I am the inventor of my process for creating images of flowers using a lightbox that are transparent---actually, images that seem translucent. This process relies…
Most of the Bay area was sunny and blue, but a swath of fog washed in from the Pacific and buried the Golden Gate. From beneath the bridge pilings on…
Bristlecone Pines are the world's oldest living things. They have witnessed thousands of passing turns of the earth in the heavens---and, therefore, the stars turning relative to the earth. I…
The motorcycle shown in the monochromatic image below has been created by hand by Ian Barry, a true artist at what he does. You can click here to read my…
What takes eight exposures, a tripod, and a range of 12 EVs? If you guessed a RAW exposure sequence manually bracketed for HDR (High Dynamic Range) with a strongly back lit window…
I am teaching Katie Rose to play chess. She gets the basic moves and is learning some openings---although she sometimes wants to jump all the pieces over each other the…
Phyllis and I have created many conventionally published photography books. Recently, we've become interested in the possibility of using new technology to create a hand made, limited edition art book, reminiscent…
I'm excited about having my large botanical Washi prints in the Botanicals group exhibition at PHOTO in Oakland. The exhibit runs from August 23 through September 29, 2012. Note that…
So I love and hate my iPhone. My iPhone 4 is the camera I always have with me, and it is a joy to schlep compared to my full and weighty…
I found this wall of plumbing parts in the farming tool shed at Green Gulch where I was leading the Tao of Photography workshop. To make the image I shot…
I am very excited to be heading back to the Bristlecone Pine groves of the White Mountains in California near the Nevada border next week. These trees, among the oldest…
Since I wrote my story about our handmade botanical art book project on Kickstarter, I've had a number of questions. If you are one of the people who wrote me,…
Phyllis and I have created many conventionally published photography books. Recently, we've become interested in the possibility of using new technology to create a hand made, limited edition art book,…
Summer here is beautiful this year---cool mornings with warm and sunny afternoons. It's hard to believe that summer is passing so quickly and that autumn will soon be upon us.…