Star Magnolia---magnolia stellata---is one of my favorite flowers. In the past I've photographed magnolia stellata for transparency here, as an upright branch, and as a light box panorama. The two…
Wandering around New York City about a year ago with my camera and tripod at dusk, on my way to a meeting with a publisher, I came upon the reflections…
Here are two recent iPhone images. I photographed the tree in the Walnut Creek area in the foothills below Mt Diablo. This was originally two iPhone captures, one exposed for…
I've had fun with a genre of light box work recently that involves arranging petals into abstract compositions. This is quite different conceptually from my botanical art---I use the petals like…
Please consider joining us for an exciting destination photo workshop to Valletta, the capital of the island country of Malta, and the Maltese island Gozo, thought to be Calypso's island…
If you are interested in my photographing flowers for transparency images and techniques, you might like a video of my presentation about a year ago on this topic at the…
Phyllis came home with a beautiful bouquet of tulips, and this morning I photographed them on the kitchen table. Warm morning sunlight lit the flowers from behind with a glow.…
This year, I'll be teaching a week long course in garden photography at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine. The dates are August 5-11, 2018. Click here for a full…
The tip of one petal to the tail of the other. Chasing narratives. Chasing Tales. From the same petals: Studies in Petals.
This is a mandala-shaped arrangement of petals on a light box around a central Proteus.
Related image: Osteospermum. Would you like to learn how to make images like this using a light box? We still have a few spaces left in our June session of…
Limited space is still available for the Dark of the Moon Night Photography in the Eastern Sierra with Harold Davis and Steven Christenson. September 7-10, 2018. Meets in Lone Pine, CA.…
Wimpy was a name of a chain of burger restaurants that were popular back in the day in England (I believe the Wimpy chain began life in South Africa). Wimpy…
Starting to scan some slides. This one is circa 1980.
Some related reading (helps to explain where I am coming from): On Art and Beauty. Related images: Floral Mandala; Petals of the Rainbow; It starts with a photo; It starts…
This year, 2018, has been a little sparse for me photographically so far (but see Red Tulips and New Year's Day Design). I think of this as a "pause that…
Flowers are beautiful, and the blossoms are always special! But sometimes the stems and leaves are what creates a special composition, and provides the underlying structure and musical harmony that…
I spent part of my day on January 1, 2018 making a floral design on a light box while listening to Bob Dylan (still hard to think of him as…