Making a Flower Block and LAB Collage
Last week I photographed a medley of flowers from our garden on the light box, with one result shown in a previous story. The flowers together formed almost a kind…
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June 17, 2019
Surreal Lady Fish
Take one model (Katlyn Lacoste). Make two in-camera studio multiple exposures of the model using strobes on a black background. Turn the exposures sideways, and mix and match in Photoshop.…
June 16, 2019
Papaver Triptych
The Nearly Perfect Poppy close-up is the center panel of the Triptych. Click here or on the image to view it larger.
June 15, 2019
Nearly Perfect Poppy
Waking up to a morning of partial sunshine, I saw this new, glowing, orange Poppy blossom in the plantings along our front porch. It was definitely dappled and dawn-drawn. Although…
June 14, 2019
Waves on Drakes Beach
Today I reprocessed this image of Waves from a while back so that the photo would work for a substantial enlargement. I wanted to keep the soft quality of the…
June 13, 2019
Announcing Romantic Southwest France (April 29-May 7, 2020): Photography in the Lot River Valley
We are pleased to announce a new destination photo workshop to southwestern France in the spring of 2020. Join a small compatible group of photographers in a 15th Century fortified…
June 11, 2019
Papaver Rhoeas Medley
It was fun to spend a slow weekend morning with the family at home. Everyone was engaged, no one was bored or whining or hungry. I photographed flowers from our…
June 10, 2019
Nautilus X-Ray Series
I made this series of X-Ray and Fusion X-Ray Nautilus shell compositions in collaboration with Dr. Julian Köpke in April in Heidelberg using conventional digital x-ray equipment and DSLR cameras,…
June 8, 2019
Exploring Tokyo for Photographers (Oct 24-Nov 1, 2020)
Photograph Tokyo with Harold Davis and Mark Brokering (Oct 24-Nov 1, 2020) One of the truly great cities of the modern world, Tokyo is extraordinarily photogenic, and surprisingly easy to…
June 7, 2019
Paris in the Spring (April 24-May 2, 2021)
Please click here for itinerary details, and click here for the Reservation Form! We look forward to exploring Paris with you. An early-bird registration discount applies. There's nothing like photographing…
June 6, 2019
Our Lady of Chartres
I recently was privileged to visit Chartres Cathedral with my group of Paris photographers. The upper two images were made inside Our Lady of Chartres with a fisheye lens and…
June 5, 2019
Lost in the folds of a rose
It's easy for me to get lost in the folds of a rose. Each petal is a curve and a valley, and a landscape of pleasure. Why go anywhere else…
June 4, 2019
Baby’s Breath
I brought home some flowers, and arranged them into bouquets. A small sprig of Baby's Breath (Gyposphila) broke off, and I put it in a little glass jar. The stem…
June 3, 2019
Tokyo here we come
I'm organizing a photography week in Tokyo for next year. As part of my research and planning for this destination photo workshop I pulled some photos from my files that…
May 31, 2019
Garden Photography Workshop – Capturing the Great Gardens of Maine
I'll be teaching a week long course in garden photography at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine again this year. The dates are August 11-17, 2019. Click here for a…
May 28, 2019
Redone in an edit for a client
I reprocessed these two images as part of an edit for a longstanding client of mine. The upper image in panorama format is of a sunrise in the Carpathian Mountains…
May 26, 2019
Creative Black and White 2nd Edition eBook Now Available
We're very excited about the second edition of Creative Black & White. The eBook is now available for purchase and download (the actual "book book" will follow in a month…
May 23, 2019
Home, Peonies, and Irises
I've been traveling a month and a day---with x-ray photography, a lovely group in Paris (the after-hours session in Monet's garden at Giverny was probably my favorite part), and a…
May 23, 2019