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September 8, 2019
Creative Black and White Opportunities Webinar
The replay of my Creative Black and White Opportunities webinar is now available for viewing on YouTube. I had a bit of problem with managing the software, and got "out…
September 5, 2019
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…
September 4, 2019
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…
September 4, 2019
PhotoActive Podcast Interview with Harold Davis
PhotoActive has featured an interview with me in their podcast, Episode 50: Harold Davis Creative Black & White. If you enjoy the chat I have on the podcast with my…
September 1, 2019
Magic in Everyday Things
In the morning, Phyllis called me over. She had the vitamin bottle upended, looking inside for pills she noticed them on the circumference of the circle at the bottom spread…
August 31, 2019
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…
August 30, 2019
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…
August 25, 2019
Clematis that Remains
This spiral structure is what remains when you don't deadhead a Clematis flower, and leave it on the vine. You can see how the core of the flower has expanded…
August 24, 2019
Free Webinar: Creative Black and White Opportunities
Please join me for a free webinar about Black and White creative opportunities. The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday August 29 at 11AM PT, with free registration on a first-come-first-served…
August 20, 2019
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…
August 16, 2019
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,…
August 16, 2019
Garden Gate
Gardens are about more than flowers. An important component of any garden is how you get in, or if you get in at all. Gardens have entrances and exits, and,…
August 15, 2019
It Be a Bee then Froggie and Me
The real denizens of any garden are the animals and insects. We humans are just visiting and passing through. I found the frog, or the frog found me, in the…
August 13, 2019
Endless Summer Dahlia Farm
The Endless Summer Dahlia Farm, in Rockport, Maine, is an incredible place run by nice folks with very exceptional dahlias. Here are a few, photographed the other day.
August 12, 2019
Finding the Attic
Phyllis just reminded me via Facetime that Maine is "Stephen King" country. So it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I opened a door I had never noticed…
August 11, 2019
Celebrating LAB Color
I'm really pleased with a comment in my Instagram feed about my Creative LAB Color in Photoshop course: "I am currently taking your LAB editing course on LinkedIn. And I…
August 9, 2019