Revealing the Unseen with X-Ray Photography of Flowers
I had to quickly change my plans due to a family emergency and fly home from Berlin. Now that I'm at home, it's good that things have settled down again,…
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August 26, 2018
Campanulas X-Rays
I write this from the train from Frankfurt to Berlin, where Julian K. and I are sitting in a first class car at the all-important table, with the all-important wi-fi…
August 22, 2018
Dahlia Fusion X-Rays and Light Box Photos
This Dahlia was photographed on a light box for transparency, then captured via x-ray photography. The two capture techniques were combined in Photoshop. In the upper version, there is also…
August 20, 2018
Top Photography Blog Honor; More Fusion X-Rays
I am honored to be included as one of the top fifteen photography blogs in the English language worldwide. This is good company to be in. Thanks for the award!…
August 17, 2018
Sunflower X-Ray Fusion
This is a fusion of an x-ray and a light box high-key HDR sequence, using a medical x-ray machine and photographed on a light box. My friend Dr Julian Koepke…
August 15, 2018
Rockport Maine to New York City
Not so much in common. Maybe photography? Now onward, and across "The Pond."
August 14, 2018
Times Square
From high above Times Square, New York does indeed seem to be the "city that never sleeps." A pulsing light show of humanity whatever hour of the day or night,…
August 13, 2018
Buddha
My class and I found this wonderful Buddha in the extraordinary Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Seal Harbor, Maine.
August 9, 2018
Maine Flowers
This was an in-class light box demo, using flowers that my wonderful workshop participants scavenged from the grounds of Maine Media Workshops.
August 8, 2018
Gardens of Maine
So far, this is a wonderful Garden Photography workshop despite the rather overpowering heat and humidity (a bit unexpected on the coast of Maine, even in August). There are fourteen…
August 8, 2018
The Maine Thing
My main thing in Maine is to photograph flowers and gardens---after all, that is the course I am teaching. But while here, certainly I am having some lobster. While I…
August 5, 2018
Once upon a Tintype
My uncle, at least I think he was my uncle, came back from far away places, India and beyond. He was footsore, and he wanted to rest for days, indeed…
August 1, 2018
Mountains of the Mind
Mist in the distant mountains is nature's way of replacing clarity of sight with unspoken nuance. We do not know what lies beneath the layers of mist, but there is…
July 28, 2018
Poem of the Road
The poem of the road is as old as the ages. The road beckons, tantalizes, leads us on. There are new vistas, new opportunities. We flee from danger down the…
July 26, 2018
The Art of Photographing Flowers for Transparency: Harold Davis at B&H in New York (Aug 13, 2018)
I'll be presenting The Art of Photographing Flowers for Transparency on Monday August 13, 2018 at the B&H Photo Event Space, 420 Ninth Avenue, in New York City from 1-3…
July 18, 2018
Papaver Poppy Pods Gone to Seed
When Papavers go to seed, they produce pods that hold the seeds. You can scrape out the pod to harvest the seeds. When one puts a clump of these seeds…
July 11, 2018
Anthers in Love
Sometimes it is fun to get lost in the worlds of macro photography. Even the somewhat commonplace can become a different and intriguing universe. As in this conventionally lit, extreme…
July 11, 2018
Through a Glass Lightly
The last few years have been traveling years for me. This means time in restaurants. Sometimes alone. Waiting for food. Or with a crowd out eating, but alone inside. Either…
July 3, 2018