Proteus X-Ray
If you ask photographers what is most important to them about their photography you may well get an answer like "revealing things that are otherwise hidden" or "showing the world…
If you ask photographers what is most important to them about their photography you may well get an answer like "revealing things that are otherwise hidden" or "showing the world…
I like to photograph found objects---"talismen"---that I can think of as magical objects with power. Those shown here are a mixed bunch: an enamel box with the apotropaic symbol for…
This is my grandfather James Young Palmer at age eight in about the year 1900, found while going through things in my parent's home. James was of course young once…
Images created from my Tulip Pano and Sunflower Bouquet decorate the United States Postal Service 2022 Stamp Yearbook. I'm pleased with how my images look. Click here for info about…
I constructed this free-form mandala on my light box from flowers in the condolence bouquets that kind folks sent us for the recent loss of my parents. The practice of…
My parents Martin and Virginia Davis both died on Sunday, January 1, 2023. They were in their nineties. My father had been sick for a long while and in a…
Heading into a new year, I always like to look back through my photography of the waning year to see what I might have overlooked. Here are a few candidates…
This is a photo of my parents, Martin and Virginia, taken soon after they met, probably in 1952 or 1953, and most likely on the campus of the University of…
2022---another "interesting" year! Travel brought me to Maine, Colorado, France (twice, once in the spring and once in the autumn), Spain, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Professional highlights included the publication…
These two flower images are fusion X-Rays: one part medical X-Ray combined with one part light box photo. I created them last month in collaboration with my friend Dr Julian…
The Photographic Society of America (PSA) gives their Progress Award annually to recognize "a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the progress of photography or an allied subject.…
It's great to be home. The image shows a ceramic bowl I bought as a gift for Phyllis in Orvieto, with lemons from our tree.
I took advantage of the mirrors in my dressing room in the hotel in Trieste to create a "recursive" image along the lines of the Droste effect (immediately below). This…
Well, the "first creepiest" room was definitely the one in Orvieto that had a large reproduction of a painting of Death playing chess with his dying victim hung right over…
Sailing Yacht A ("Sy A") is a super yacht belonging to a Russian oligarch that was seized by Italian authorities in Trieste harbor in March, 2022. Sy A remains anchored…
A few days ago, my friend Julian and I walked up to the Michelangelo Piazza for a view above Florence. We were welcomed with a display of sun, clouds, rain---and…
The day dawned with a white-out fog blanketing the Umbrian hill town of Orvieto. I wandered through the maze of ancient, deserted streets and alleys with my camera on the…