I spent last week leading a night photography workshop high in the White Mountains on the California-Nevada border. This eastern California desert mountain range is home to the ancient Bristlecone…
In keeping with family tradition, Katie Rose is shown here with an advance copy of Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis from Focal Press. The bulk of the…
This is a photo of the renovation construction at California Memorial Stadium, the football arena associated with UC Berkeley. The cost for this controversial project is upwards of three hundred…
This is a portion of the ribbons rack at Stonemountain and Daughter, a very cool fabric store here in Berkeley, shot for HDR in seven exposures. I used a 12mm…
My image of Death Valley Star Trails has been shortlisted by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England for their 2011 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. Wish me luck! Here's…
As with Arrested Decay, this is an HDR shot taking advantage of the textures inherent in the abandoned buildings of the ghost town of Bodie. Usually, when I get into…
All art is referential to other art. Even post-modernist art---which makes a point of studiously appearing to avoid artistic antecedents---is in fact playing off the very traditions it thumbs its…
In the eastern California ghost town of Bodie the curatorial choice has been made to leave things in a state of "arrested decay." Notionally, this means that dwellings in Bodie…
Towards dusk, on the slow 20%-grade slopes up the Sonora Pass road on the Eastern slope of the Sierras, I passed this grove of Aspens. There was something about the…
At about 10,000 feet elevation the mosquitos were ferocious. They swarmed in great clouds, buzzing their way through any minute gaps in my defences. Even lotion purportedly made of 100%…
Go van Gogh is an unusual image of a sunflower in the swirling style of Vincent van Gogh presented against a starry night sky. The image makes a great large…