Our weekend workshop From iPhone to Art: The Art of IPhoneography is coming up soon. You'll find more information about this very special workshop below, as well as many of my photos,…
I was fooling around the other day with photographing glassware and loose (unmounted) lenses on my light box. The images are inverted in LAB. With one of the glasses, I…
I want to invite you to join with me and a select group of friends in seeking the sources of our creativity---and working to become the best and most creative…
As the last light of day touches the sea-kissed cliffs, it is important to keep in mind that although night may follow day, day also follows night. Be of good…
As sunset turns to dusk, and dusk to night, colors linger on the towering westward-facing Pacific cliffs of the Big Sur peninsula. Long after the landscape is a murky, dark…
Yesterday I made a photographic trip to the Big Sur coast. It was a spectacular day for photography, and some images will no doubt follow in the due fullness of…
I pulled these pretty images of a field of chrysanthemums on a light box from my files, and processed it the other day. Did you know that "Odour of Chrysanthemums"…
2016 is a year of the fire monkey. This is by way of saying that one should rightfully have expected the unexpected. The monkey is a trickster, and not always…
Which of these versions of my first floral tondo do you like better? My favorite is Flower Tondo 1 Variation Inversion, shown immediately below on black, without the fancy curvilinear "virtual"…
Tondo is a Renaissance term for a circular painting. To create my floral tondo, I started with a circular pattern on my light box. I arranged an array of petals---mostly…
In the practice of modern photography, an exposure as long as five minutes duration during daytime hours seems like eternity. This is particularly true in the context of the raging…
I am a great fan of artistic calligraphy, particularly as seen in Japan and in historic Islamic cultures. So when I arranged these flowers on my light box I tried…
This image was made as an in-class demo of light box flower arrangement and post-production. I called on each workshop participant to choose a stem, then arranged them one-by-one on…
I'm very pleased with some of the great feedback for the recent Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop. Here's what some folks said: "Just a fabulous creative presentation for flowers that…
Definition of homeopathy: a system of medical practice that treats a disease especially by the administration of minute doses of a remedy that would in larger amounts produce in healthy persons symptoms…
Here's a portrait of her Mom that Katie Rose made using her pastels. I can sure see the spirit and the likeness in this drawing!