Blue on Red
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March 29, 2019
Upcoming Bay Area Events
Please take note of the following local opportunities where I will be presenting: Free presentation, Photographing Flowers for Transparency, Thursday March 28, North Berkeley Public Library. Presentation to the Santa Clara…
March 23, 2019
Radiating Beauty: Creating a new photographic form with fusion x-rays
The shapes and forms are recognizable, yet the level of detail is deeper than the human eye can normally perceive: Leaves appear minutely laced and surfaces are impossibly intricate, somewhere…
March 11, 2019
New Course: Creative LAB Color in Photoshop
Click here to view my course on LinkedIn Learning and here to view my course on Lynda.com. Here's a preview: The creative power of Lab from Photoshop: Creative Lab Color…
March 5, 2019
Creative Black & White—Revised and Expanded
We're almost through authoring the second edition of Creative Black & White. It has been revised, substantially expanded, and brought up to date. You can pre-order my new book from Amazon…
March 4, 2019
Explorations, projects, digital collages, constructions, and more
I confess: sometimes I lose track of my own work. Lately---over the past year or so---I've been working on related themes, groupings of images that are tightly, or loosely, linked.…
February 25, 2019
Paris from the 18th Arrondissement
I used my iPhone to snap this somewhat unusual view of the Parisian landscape from the heights of the 18th Arrondissement, a window high on the slopes of Montmartre, with…
February 20, 2019
Curves Ahead
Starting with sunlight coming through vessels with color, I pared down my abstractions. But lately we have been under a river of rain. Sunlight is scarce. But it doesn't take…
February 16, 2019
Free Topaz Webinar with Harold Davis on Tuesday Feb 19
Webinar with Harold Davis: Topaz As an Integral Part of Creative Post-Production Tuesday February 19, 2019 at 2PM PT (4PM CT), 45 minute presentation with 15 minutes for Q&A. The…
February 15, 2019
Apparently Home to Manatees and More
After my workshop in West Palm Beach, I had a morning to explore south Florida. I rented a car, and drove through scrub and pre-Everglades marsh inland to Lake Okeechobee---seemingly…
February 13, 2019
Cutting Corners
In Mounts Botanical Gardens of Palm Beach County, Florida an impressive exhibit of an installation by stick-work artist Patrick Dougherty was showcased when I visited recently. I'm always interested in doors,…
February 12, 2019
Looking down the frond—Been down so long it looks like up to me!
What you may find a little different about this photo of a palm frond is the viewpoint: my macro lens is looking straight down the frond, so that it looks…
February 10, 2019
A point of information, not a point of honor
The triptych of photos shown in this story were made in my camera, not in post-production, with only small tweaks for slight retouching, exposure, and minor saturation adjustments. I say…
February 4, 2019
Can you see color in black & white?
A client recently asked me to submit a series of monochromatic images of flowers. This happened after the client saw the black and white image of a begonia, shown below.…
February 1, 2019
Free Presentation: Photographing Flowers for Transparency
I'll be talking about my Photographing Flowers for Transparency work, showing images, and discussing the process at a free presentation at the North Berkeley Public Library Community Meeting Room on Thursday March…
January 31, 2019