Pale Garden
From our garden I cut clematis, clivia, and iris. The tulips were store-bought. I assembled a composition to echo Flowers of Spring's Desire and Poppies and Mallows, but using a…
Review: A New Lens for Harold (the Irix 150mm “Dragonfly” macro)
I photographed these close-ups of flower petals (image above: an Iris; image below: the petals of a Gerbera from behind) with a new lens, the Irix 150mm f/2.8 "Dragonfly" telephoto…
Red Tulips
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…
Demonstration Flower Projects
Here are two of the images I used to demonstrate capture and post-production at my recent Photographing Flowers for Transparency course at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine. When I…
Photograph Southwestern France in April, 2018—Only a few spaces left!
Grab your camera and come with me on a photographic adventure to the "deep France" of the Lot River valley. Starting Thursday, April 19, 2018 (leave the States on the…
Design for a Stained Glass Window Made of Flowers
To create this design for a stained glass window, I started by laying down a series of mallow blossoms in a loose spiral (the magenta flowers). Next, I filled in…
St Ursula Street, Valletta
This is one of the interior streets in the compact, picturesque, and fortified city of Valletta, Malta. I don't think there is anyplace else in the world like Valletta---and I'll…
Kira in a Cafe
For the demonstration of how to add a post-production selective soft focus using an Iris Blur for my forthcoming book from Monacelli Press, The Photographer's Black and White Handbook, I…