Duck Crossing
I think this "Duck Crossing" traffic sign is for real. I found the crossing sign, along with many ducks and other water fowls, while walking the other day in the Marina…
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July 8, 2016
Black & White in San Francisco: A Weekend Workshop with Harold Davis
Saturday November 19 and Sunday November 20, 2016 This workshop includes field photography in several Bay area locations, and monochromatic shooting techniques in the field. Classroom sessions will explore black & white…
July 6, 2016
Rooftops of Paris—Split-Toned Version
I used my image of the Rooftops of Paris as a demonstration image for my new book, The Photographer's Black and White Handbook. In my book, I use the image to…
July 5, 2016
As Time Goes By
On a late November wet afternoon, as dusk turned to sodden night, I wandered the banks of the Seine River with my camera. My idea was to render the street…
July 3, 2016
From iPhone to ART: A weekend iPhonegraphy workshop with Harold Davis
From iPhone to ART: The Art of iPhoneography A Two-Day Weekend Workshop with Harold Davis, Saturday January 28 - Sunday January 29, 2017. This workshop will be hosted in Berkeley,…
July 2, 2016
Three Cranes in Paris
This is a photograph of the Paris skyline from May, 2016 I recently processed for a current project. I like the way it shows Paris as a city always in…
July 1, 2016
Inside Prague’s Old Town Square Tower
For a book about black and white photography I am working on, I needed a few more images from Prague in the Czech Republic. This image shows the inside of…
June 29, 2016
Negative-for-Positive Funhouse Fun
This is a photo of the Hall of Mirrors in Prague in the Czech Republic. To create the negative-for-positive effect---which is somewhat like looking at a film negative rather than…
June 28, 2016
Full-Day Advanced LAB Color Seminar with Harold Davis
We are offering a new, full-day Advanced LAB Color Seminar for those who want to learn more about one of the most mysterious, powerful, and underused set of creative tools…
June 27, 2016
Eschew the Routine
Yesterday was going to be a day of routine and mundane tasks: bookkeeping, workflow management, writing business emails, and so on. As a professional photographer and artist, this stuff has…
June 26, 2016
2017 Flower Photography with Harold Davis Workshops
Since our Flower Photography workshops are so popular, we've opened enrollment for two new sessions: 2-Day Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop on March 25-26, 2017 4-Day Intensive Flower Masterclass on…
June 24, 2016
Dragon of the Redwoods
Update: The green pattern at the bottom of the image is caused by reflection from the sensor into the lens and from there back to the sensor. Wandering in a Californian coastal…
June 23, 2016
First-Order Fresnel Lens at Point Reyes Lighthouse
This is an image of the first-order Fresnel lens inside the Point Reyes Lighthouse on the western tip of Point Reyes, California. According to the Point Reyes National Seashore website,…
June 20, 2016
Light Box Floral Fun with My iPhone
Here are two new floral images shot and processed with my iPhone. Both were initially processed in Snapseed. The upper image was then put through Plastic Bullet and Lo-Mob, with…
June 20, 2016
Study in Scarlet
In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Watson meet for the very first time and agree to share an apartment. As new roomies, Holmes…
June 16, 2016
Garden Party
The flowers in my garden decided to have a party. The Fourth of July Roses brought the noise makers and musical instruments. The irises brought the guacamole and dip. The…
June 15, 2016
Webinar Recording Topaz Labs Discount Code
The recording of my Travel Photography webinar for Topaz Labs will be available for replay soon on YouTube and the Topaz website. In the meantime, for the next few days,…
June 15, 2016