Early-Bird Discount Deadlines Approaching

Our spring 2020 destination photo workshop to Southwest France no longer has vacancies. But we do have a couple of other wonderful opportunities, currently with significant early-registration discounts: The substantial…

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Photoshop Backgrounds and Textures

Regarding my LinkedIn Learning Photoshop Backgrounds & Textures course, a correspondent emails: "Thank you for making this topic so interesting. I've been accumulating photos of backgrounds and textures for years…

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Spoonerismo

Looking at our sets of kitchen measuring spoons, with their patina and scratches from long use in a hard-working family kitchen, I noticed the pattern of concentric ovals, particularly when…

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Petal Pushing

I'm back at my old habits, building compositions constructed from flower petals on a light box, photographing the assemblage in high-key HDR, then combining for transparency in Photoshop, finally inverting…

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Bailey Island, Maine

Like a narrow finger, Bailey Island extends into Casco Bay on the Atlantic coast of Maine. It's connected to the mainland, some thirty miles away, via a narrow bridge of…

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Class Demo

At the end of the Garden Photography workshop this past week, I quickly arranged some flowers on an LED panel to demonstrate my Photographing Flowers for Transparency technique. This LED…

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Eye Dahlia

Sometimes individual flowers call out to me as so unique that I need to photograph them on their own. This rather small dahlia, photographed at the Endless Summer Dahlia Farm,…

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