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…
Flowers for Transparency December Session (early-bird discount applies)
Due to many requests, I have opened a new weekend workshop session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency for the Saturday December 3 and Sunday December 4 weekend (2016) here in…
Wheel of Flowers
This is a fairly regular, patterned image using cymbidium orchids on the outer most ring. Daffodils are next, with irises forming the inner circle around a single red tulip blossom.…
Belying Apparent Simplicity
This image of Tulips in a Vase on White derives its power from its apparent simplicity. In fact, behind the scenes, I constructed the image with a certain amount of calculated…
Quartet of iPhone Photos
The occasion of my purchase of a new iPhone 6s (for the camera of course and not for the mere love of idle but novel gadgetry made in the slave-labor…
Persistence of Personal Vision
I've been struck on a number of occasions how the same elements in a scene interest me photographically, even after a gap of many years. Returning to a mountainside in…
Two Botanicals
The other day I enjoyed photographing and presenting some local flowers cut from the neighborhood in a fairly traditional way so that the finished images appear at first glance much…
Photographic Tour to Romantic Southwest France in April, 2016
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…