Nearly Perfect Poppy
Waking up to a morning of partial sunshine, I saw this new, glowing, orange Poppy blossom in the plantings along our front porch. It was definitely dappled and dawn-drawn. Although…
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June 14, 2019
Waves on Drakes Beach
Today I reprocessed this image of Waves from a while back so that the photo would work for a substantial enlargement. I wanted to keep the soft quality of the…
June 13, 2019
Announcing Romantic Southwest France (April 29-May 7, 2020): Photography in the Lot River Valley
We are pleased to announce a new destination photo workshop to southwestern France in the spring of 2020. Join a small compatible group of photographers in a 15th Century fortified…
June 11, 2019
Papaver Rhoeas Medley
It was fun to spend a slow weekend morning with the family at home. Everyone was engaged, no one was bored or whining or hungry. I photographed flowers from our…
June 10, 2019
Nautilus X-Ray Series
I made this series of X-Ray and Fusion X-Ray Nautilus shell compositions in collaboration with Dr. Julian Köpke in April in Heidelberg using conventional digital x-ray equipment and DSLR cameras,…
June 8, 2019
Exploring Tokyo for Photographers (Oct 24-Nov 1, 2020)
Photograph Tokyo with Harold Davis and Mark Brokering (Oct 24-Nov 1, 2020) One of the truly great cities of the modern world, Tokyo is extraordinarily photogenic, and surprisingly easy to…
June 7, 2019
Paris in the Spring (April 24-May 2, 2021)
Please click here for itinerary details, and click here for the Reservation Form! We look forward to exploring Paris with you. An early-bird registration discount applies. There's nothing like photographing…
June 6, 2019
Our Lady of Chartres
I recently was privileged to visit Chartres Cathedral with my group of Paris photographers. The upper two images were made inside Our Lady of Chartres with a fisheye lens and…
June 5, 2019
Lost in the folds of a rose
It's easy for me to get lost in the folds of a rose. Each petal is a curve and a valley, and a landscape of pleasure. Why go anywhere else…
June 4, 2019
Baby’s Breath
I brought home some flowers, and arranged them into bouquets. A small sprig of Baby's Breath (Gyposphila) broke off, and I put it in a little glass jar. The stem…
June 3, 2019
Tokyo here we come
I'm organizing a photography week in Tokyo for next year. As part of my research and planning for this destination photo workshop I pulled some photos from my files that…
May 31, 2019
Garden Photography Workshop – Capturing the Great Gardens of Maine
I'll be teaching a week long course in garden photography at Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine again this year. The dates are August 11-17, 2019. Click here for a…
May 28, 2019
Redone in an edit for a client
I reprocessed these two images as part of an edit for a longstanding client of mine. The upper image in panorama format is of a sunrise in the Carpathian Mountains…
May 26, 2019
Creative Black and White 2nd Edition eBook Now Available
We're very excited about the second edition of Creative Black & White. The eBook is now available for purchase and download (the actual "book book" will follow in a month…
May 23, 2019
Home, Peonies, and Irises
I've been traveling a month and a day---with x-ray photography, a lovely group in Paris (the after-hours session in Monet's garden at Giverny was probably my favorite part), and a…
May 23, 2019
The Scallop Shell Symbol on the Camino
If you've walked the Camino de Santiago, you'll have followed a route marked with scallop shell symbols. Along with many other pilgrims, I have a scallop shell hanging from my…
May 19, 2019
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela at Sunrise
For well over a millennia, the Cathedral of Saint James has been the goal of a tireless---and tired and footsore---stream of pilgrims toiling along the various Caminos that lead to…
May 18, 2019
Garden along the Camino
Someone had built this garden beside the trail in the nook beside an old stone wall, with its rose trellis across a small spring. Now, half wild, the garden was…
May 16, 2019