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…
1 Comment
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
Stacking Through the Night
Gradually I became aware of light, so much light that it woke me because I thought it was dawn. Actually, the crescent moon was rising above the trees. I knew…
September 5, 2011
My Favorite Bristlecone
This is my favorite tree in the Patriarch Grove of Bristlecone Pines. Even when we pretend neutrality (as with our kids) the truth is that we likely have our favorites.…
September 4, 2011
Ancient Music of the Stars
The Bristlecone Pines were in their youth when Odysseus plowed the Aegean in search of a way home to his Ithaca. These trees were already ancient when Julius Caesar crossed…
September 2, 2011
Distant Night Storm
I spent last week leading a night photography workshop high in the White Mountains on the California-Nevada border. This eastern California desert mountain range is home to the ancient Bristlecone…
August 31, 2011
Photographing Flowers: Advance copy arrives
In keeping with family tradition, Katie Rose is shown here with an advance copy of Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis from Focal Press. The bulk of the…
August 20, 2011
The Money Pit
This is a photo of the renovation construction at California Memorial Stadium, the football arena associated with UC Berkeley. The cost for this controversial project is upwards of three hundred…
August 17, 2011
Stonemountain and Daughter, and Ribbons, and HDR
This is a portion of the ribbons rack at Stonemountain and Daughter, a very cool fabric store here in Berkeley, shot for HDR in seven exposures. I used a 12mm…
August 16, 2011
Shortlisted
My image of Death Valley Star Trails has been shortlisted by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England for their 2011 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Wish me luck! Here's…
August 13, 2011
Gone with the Wind
As with Arrested Decay, this is an HDR shot taking advantage of the textures inherent in the abandoned buildings of the ghost town of Bodie. Usually, when I get into…
August 11, 2011
Japonica: Papaver Dreams
All art is referential to other art. Even post-modernist art---which makes a point of studiously appearing to avoid artistic antecedents---is in fact playing off the very traditions it thumbs its…
August 9, 2011
Arrested Decay
In the eastern California ghost town of Bodie the curatorial choice has been made to leave things in a state of "arrested decay." Notionally, this means that dwellings in Bodie…
August 7, 2011
Aspens near Sonora Pass
Towards dusk, on the slow 20%-grade slopes up the Sonora Pass road on the Eastern slope of the Sierras, I passed this grove of Aspens. There was something about the…
August 4, 2011