This dragon was constructed on a light box, using petals from alstroemerias ("Peruvian lilies"), and other flowers. It is wishing you a creative, exciting, and more generally positive year ahead!
"Do you have any idea how productive we've been?" I asked my spouse, as I compiled a page of links to our recent webinar video recordings. I had no idea…
We are looking forward to a time when it is safe to have workshops in person. Meanwhile, please consider our new slate of 2021 webinars on Saturdays, with (we hope)…
Obviously, 2020 has been a difficult year for everyone. It was also not the year it started out being for me. Let me explain. In February and March I was…
Happy & Healthy Holiday wishes! This year 2020 almost past surely wins an award for year most wished to be in the rear-view mirror. As we head into 2021 we…
Piles of flower petals are performative (and alliterative). I've fallen into the habit of keeping piles of natural objects, specifically bowls of flower petals in my work area. Gradually, they…
I just watched the stop-motion videos that Phyllis made of making these two mandalas. How totally cool! Please consider joining us tomorrow, on Saturday December 12, 2020. We will (among…
Please consider joining me for a conversation about my photography with John Cornicello and Holger Mischke on Jan 7, 2021 at 10am PT. This is a free event. Click here…
A mandala is a circular geometric pattern that symbolically can represent the entire universe. Sometimes, a mandala is meant to represent wholeness and life itself in relation to the infinite…
It's nice to pair a bouquet of yellow sunflowers with lush, blue velvet. The sunflower petals have been touched slightly with the Photoshop Oil Painting filter to add a little…
Please consider our new slate of webinars, now scheduled through March, 2021 on Saturday mornings (Pacific Time), with (we hope) something for everyone: Harnessing the Power of Composition in Your…
Harnessing the Power of Composition in Your Photography is scheduled for this coming Saturday, December 5, 2020 at 11am PT. In this unique webinar: "Harold Davis shares his work across…
Good photographic composition demands paying attention to backgrounds as well as foregrounds. It's a truism among photographic educators that beginners neglect backgrounds in favor of foregrounds. This is particularly the…
This coming Saturday, November 21, 2020, at 11am PT we will be hosting Creative Projects for Wintering in Place via Zoom webinar. My thinking behind presenting this webinar now is…
Thanks to the superb panelists Anne Belmont and Bryan Peterson, and all who attended, we were able to write a check today to The Center for Policing Equity for $1,620.95. …
Phyllis and I had "double date" appointments with the Eye Clinic on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Visiting the optometrist in a time of masks and social distancing was certainly a…
Please consider joining us for an extraordinary Master Photographer panel on Saturday November 14, 2020 featuring Anne Belmont and Bryan Peterson. This webinar will benefit a great cause, the Center for…
Why is writing important to you and why do you think it's an important medium for the world? Words and writing are fundamental to what it means to be human.…