Sweet Melancholy
There's nothing like watching rain from inside where it is warm and dry to usher in feelings of sweet melancholy. Yesterday, a warm and gentle rain fell like a curtain…
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October 11, 2011
Scabiosa Pods and Fern
Possibly I am obsessed. The same set of shooting and post-production techniques that work to make imagery of glassware look something like antique drawings also work on ferns and seed…
October 9, 2011
Sun and Waterdrops
The day started with a massive downpour. Then there was a sunny interlude before the rain began again. Things continued in this intermittent vein. I took advantage of a lull…
October 6, 2011
HDR is technique, not style
Among the many misconceptions about HDR (High Dynamic Range) image creation is a big mistake: the belief that HDR represents a style, or a particular look. Photographers who subscribe to…
October 4, 2011
Anemone and Water Drops
How fine it is to take advantage of a light rain, and photograph waterdrops caught in a spider web! A small, delicate flower, an anemone, is behind the web and…
October 3, 2011
Photographing Flowers is shipping
Just a brief note to say that Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis, published by Focal Press, is now shipping and available from Amazon and Barnes & Nobles.…
September 28, 2011
Different Kind of Flower
The glare of reflected sunlight on the swimming pool was blindingly bright. There was a wide dynamic range of lighting levels from the light on the water to the attractive…
September 28, 2011
Hall of Mirrors
On a hot and humid day in March of 1957, forty-two men armed with sub-machine guns, carbines and automatic pistols crammed into the back of a small delivery truck. Two…
September 26, 2011
Floral Tapestry Panel
This is a panel in a "floral tapestry"---shot in several pieces using a lightbox as the background, then stitched together as a panorama. Related image and story: Making a Floral…
September 23, 2011
Forest Sonata
At a glance in Adobe Bridge, the RAW file showing crepuscular rays of sunshine on the forest floor seemed underexposed, lifeless and gray. This was not entirely surprising, as I…
September 22, 2011
Three New Galleries
I've added three new galleries to my website: Landscapes Models Floral Tapestries Enjoy!
September 21, 2011
Looking Up
Things are looking up. Last week I took a break from assignments and book deadlines and embarked on an ambitious program to revitalize my website. The main point was to…
September 18, 2011
The Path of HDR
Stove and Cupboard joins Museum at Bodie, Gone with the Wind, and Arrested Decay in the sequence of High Dynamic Range (HDR) imagery I shot recently in the ghost town…
September 14, 2011
Glass Bead Game
One of the great things about the Crooked Creek Research Station, nestled high in a valley in a desert mountain range east of the Sierras in California, is the curatorial…
September 12, 2011
Ten Years After
On 9/11 ten years ago, our world changed for the worse. Every year around this anniversary I am saddened. There is much to mourn, from the loss of life to…
September 11, 2011
White Mountain Sunset
From the wide summit above the Barcroft Research Station, at about 13,200 feet, the workshop photographed sunset. The view was spectacular, stretching west to the Sierra crest, east to the…
September 9, 2011
Sunset from Lembert Dome
Lembert Dome lies in the upper reaches of Yosemite National Park, California, at the eastern edge of the Tuolumne Meadows. As I trudged up the trail to the top of…
September 8, 2011
Inside Bodie in HDR
This image of the museum at the old ghost town of Bodie was created from six exposures using High Dynamic Range (HDR) techniques. Each exposure as at 18mm, f/22, and…
September 7, 2011