What: A week with a small compatible group of photographers in a 15th Century castle in the lush countryside of southwest France in the springtime. Where: Mas de Garrigue, a…
Wandering with the kids over to Indian Rock I came across some really nice spiral specimens of Aloe polyphylla. The plant is originally from Lesotho near South Africa, and is…
What: A Free Webinar. Join Topaz Labs for an exciting session as Harold Davis shows how he uses Topaz plug-ins to enhance his well-known botanical photos. When: Tuesday, Jul 21, 2015 2:00…
Hokusai, the famous Japanese woodblock print artist of the Edo period, created many views of Japan that included Mt Fuji, but the one shown here was probably not in his…
Here's an ad I wrote for Craig's List recently about one of the two couches we are trying to get rid of: Too many folks trying to crash at your…
The Oakland 16th Street Station, also called the Central Oakland Station, was built in the early 1900s as a grand terminus for the Southern Pacific Railway. In service until 1994,…
In the eighteenth century, Tokyo---then known as Edo---was the world’s largest city, with a population of over one million. Today, Tokyo is still one of the world’s great metropoli, sprawling…
After seeing some of my photos mistaken for O'Keeffe's luscious flower paintings, I took another look at the wondrous botanical art of Georgia O'Keeffe. The sensuous, indeed sexual, nature of…
A Matilija Poppy pokes out in the middle of a covert of flowering dogwood, cosmos, old-fashioned roses, echinacea, and climbing mallows. Enjoy! Photographed straight down on my light box for…
These floral fantasies are created and photographed as collages on the light box, then processing in Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop, Nik, Topaz, and using LAB color adjustments. What fun! Photographed…
Point Reyes National Seashore is probably unique among the American National Parks in that this public land is shared with working cattle and dairy ranches. These ranches date from the…
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On my way to teach a weekend Seascapes and Wildflowers workshop at the western tip of Point Reyes, California I stopped to photograph the well-known row of Monterey Cypress trees…
The barista at Farley's in Emeryville, California makes the nicest designs in the Latte foam!
Long-time readers of my blog will know that I am no fan of the perspicacity and wisdom of the powers-that-be at Flickr and their Yahoo masters. This is despite the…
Like Clematis this is a single blossom, photographed on a light box, inverted to black in LAB, and then converted to monochrome using a virtual Infrared filter. The steps are…
Last week when I have a composition on my light box I photographed it with a high resolution camera on tripod. Then I thought, why not do it using my…
Images that verge on the transparent and convey translucency can appear miraculous. If you want to learn my techniques for photographing flowers for transparency on a light box, but can't…