Pretty in Pink
The upper image shows Anemones and Alstromerias ("Peruvian lilies") from my garden, both pink flowers, and if you look carefully, two butterflies as well. I used a slightly modified technique…
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September 21, 2017
Bay Bridge
This is an iPhone photo from Treasure Island over the Bay Bridge towards San Francisco, taken during my recent (very much fun) San Francisco in Black & White extended field…
September 20, 2017
Flowers for Kwangsik
Kwangsik came from Korea to attend our San Francisco in Black & White workshop this past weekend. On Friday, by special arrangement, he spent some time with me going over…
September 18, 2017
Where be the nestling dragon?
Castle Corvin, located in the center of the drab Romanian provincial city of Hunedoara (and sometimes called Hunedoara Castle), is one of the finest castles I have ever seen. Do…
September 14, 2017
Blue Danube
The Danube River meanders from central Europe down through Budapest, finally to end in a Black Sea delta in southeastern Romania. The photo below shows the Danube at blue-hour-into-night looking…
September 10, 2017
Welcome Home Flowers
It's great to come home to tulips and lobelias from the garden to photograph. Thank you Phyllis! Not to mention such a lovely, warm, and wonderful family. I photographed the…
September 8, 2017
Budapest Jewish Quarter
This huge designer advertisement is applied to the wall of an apartment building that stands to the side of one of the entrances to the old Budapest, Hungary Jewish quarter.…
September 8, 2017
Perfect Dandelion
It's great to be home again after my interesting photographic tour of Romania, with domestic quests on hand like finding the perfect dandelion core!
September 6, 2017
Umbrellas over Bucharest
The Old Town of Bucharest, Romania seems like a really happening place. When the lights go down, the action comes out, and most likely, as Arlo Guthrie put it in…
September 4, 2017
Bran Castle
Bran Castle was originally a kind of customs checkpoint guarding a mountain pass. Perhaps because of its rugged appearance it has become associated with the Bram Stoker Dracula story, although…
September 2, 2017
Big Facial Hair
When a man reaches a certain age, and perhaps has become a bit of a family patriarch, he should be allowed to let his hair grow any way he wants.…
August 31, 2017
Modeling a Wedding Skirt
This Roma girl is posing with her big sister's wedding skirt, as if trying it on for size. Soon the younger sister will leave school. She will have had a…
August 31, 2017
Dracul’s Birthplace
Above a bar in the Citadel of Sighisoara in remote Transylvania is a room where Count Dracula was born. Or, so it is claimed. For five Romanian lei (a little…
August 31, 2017
Gypsy Family
This gypsy family has four kids, just as mine does (I showed them photos of my kids). The three sisters are shown in the rear, with their brother (the youngest)…
August 31, 2017
Home-Made Nail
As I watched, this village blacksmith made me a nail the old-fashioned way---by hand---to take back as a souvenir to America.
August 31, 2017
Portrait of a Gypsy
There are about 500,000 Roma---"gypsies"---living in Romania. This is about 4.5% of the population. These are a proud people with a very distinctive and colorful culture, many with very limited…
August 30, 2017
The Charcoal Maker
Alec is a charcoal maker. He spends about eight months a year living in a camp in rural Romania that is off a dirt road off a dirt road. No…
August 30, 2017
The Eyes Have It
Here in Sibiu, Transylvania they build the roofs high and steeply pitched. To let ventilation and light into the attic spaces these stylized "eyes" have traditionally been added to the…
August 29, 2017