Composition with Delphinium and Poppies is a good example showing one of the organizing principles I teach in my Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop and my books. The first premise…
What joy to come home to my family and garden in Berkeley, and find spring still in bloom! These are two Papaver rhoeas---corn poppies---from our garden. I photographed each on…
Here's a four-panel construction based on the spiral image shown above using rotations and reflections: Related stories showing the same staircase: Waiting for Escher and Triple-Spiral Stair.
To depart is to leave one place, but not to arrive as yet at another place. Departures are in-between. They are neither one place, nor the other. As such, departures…
The Pont d'En Gil is a stunningly beautiful natural arch formation near Ciutadella on the island of Menorca.
Back to the Far de Cavalleria, this time at night. Weather conditions weren't ideal. The idea had been a Milky Way arch over the lighthouse, but clouds---with an occasional burst…
At the wonderful but somewhat exhausting PhotoPills Camp on the island of Menorca I photographed the Cavelleria Lighthouse this morning. We rolled up to the lighthouse in our bus in…
The Atlantic coast of Galicia is rugged. Sheer cliffs reach down to the ocean at the end of long peninsulas. Skies are often gray, and waves can be large. No…
At La Mola, the immense fortress that guarded the entrance to the strategic port of Mahon, or Mao in modern rendering, on Menorca, it is easy to feel echoes of…
This is an image of the color shadows cast by the late afternoon sun shining though stained glass in the Royal Chapel of the Hostal dos Reis Catolicos in Santiago…
As I wandered about the interior of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, I noticed a sign saying "Embrace the Apostle." There was a line of people waiting behind a…
The previous images of the triple-spiral staircase were from below looking up, or from above looking down. This one is neither up nor down, it is in about the middle…
The Vatican has its famous and grand two-spiral Bramante stair, and there are other examples of double-spiral stairs throughout the world; for example, Calling Alice (San Francisco) and Edificio Cuervo Rubio (Havana, Cuba)…
Today I trudged into Santiago de Compostela, having completed my Camino, tired and footsore, but happy. At the queue in the cloisters waiting for our certificates we all compared blisters…
Phyllis says that for her my Camino is visually a succession of hotel room interiors. This is because of the nine-hour time-shift with California. When she is sleeping, I am…
Today on the Camino I met Rosa, a zookeeper from Denmark. Rosa has walked the Camino from the French border to raise awareness and donations for wild camels. Wild camels…
Yesterday I wrote about group singing along the Camino. It turns out that my biggest mistake in preparing for my Camino was musical. By way of background, I like to…
I fear the art of being alone with oneself has been lost. Oh, I am no saint! In the evenings I catch up with family via FaceTime, news from the…