In Guest Blog Post: Photographer as Poet Harold Davis I write that selfies are silly and that photography is poetry. I also tell some of my life story in and…
A good time of year for wreaths, this is a not-quite-Thanksgiving wreath slash mandala in California style with a succulent in the center and autumn grasses arranged symmetrically around the…
I'm very happy to have sold a trio of lightly sepia-toned monochromatic prints on Moab Juniper Baryta to a collector. In garden photography, sometimes simplicity is the point. I made…
I don't know how to keep track of the curls any more. Maybe the best way is to run a train track through the curls in the two-dimensional substrate. Any…
The image shows a print of my 2012 Peonies mon Amour, one of my most popular botanical images, as printed on simulated Awagami Unryu washi, distributed in the United States…
I am grateful to a longtime collector and friend who recently purchased this print on Moab Juniper Baryta of my Through the Rabbit Hole. Most of my images are available…
Soon the hot wind from on high is among us, and we feel the devil's riding crop. What unknown blasts fuel the motion of an already unstable and pockmarked sphere?…
Leek & Lichen should perhaps be the name for a pub on the outskirts of London, somewhere past Elephant & Castle and nearby to the Queen's Head and Artichoke. Alas,…
Thinking about the upcoming photography conference in Yosemite led me to browse through some of my archives of work of Yosemite in winter's past. Digital means never having to say…
I'm pleased to sell a print of X-Ray Floral Medley Fusion (an iPhone snap of the print is shown below) to a longtime collector. Printed on Moab Juniper Baryta, one…
My goal with an image like Platala is to create a field that is so visually lush that it is distracting. This kind of image should be beautiful, with so many…
I added some red carnation petals to the Hydrangea Blossoms composition. The result is a really emotive light box image: this piece says "happiness" to me.
Progression 1, shown above, is an image designed to be visually to be read from left to right. Creating this kind of fantastic decorative imagery takes more than a little…
This batch of prints are signed. We'll let them cure a couple of days, then they will be ready for their new homes! Printed on Juniper Baryta, with special thanks…
Recipe: Take a dark, turgid decorative pond wherein dwell some not very Coy Koi. Throw in a probe wide-angle macro lens. Make sure the macro probe is water proof at…
These hydrangea petals were placed on a light box. I photographed them above with my Nikon D850 using the techniques explained in my Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop, and below…
Here are three images from the "Eye Candy" files. Nautilus and Inversion (above, click on the image or here to view it larger) is a single photo of two halves of…
In honor of the quincentennial of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, there will be numerous exhibitions of the master's work. His Vitruvian Man drawing in particular was subject to a…