Full Moon Golden Gate Workshops in June 2013 I'm pleased to announce two new June sessions of our Full Moon Workshop: Photograph the Golden Gate Bridge Like You Never Have…
There's one somewhat discordant element in this tableau of a metallurgic assayer's desk, shot at Laws Railroad Museum near Bishop, California. What is the gun doing in the image? According to…
This is a photo of a very small shell sometimes called a "Sundial" (of the architectonica genus). It is less than an inch across, and shown elsewhere on my blog…
Recently, my friend and photography student Jack Tasoff died in a four-wheel-drive accident in a remote area of the Anza-Borrego desert. I first met Jack a number of years ago.…
In "Botanique": Harold Davis's Origami in a Box on the Moab Paper blog you'll find a story about a mystery package. Here's how the story begins: "A mysterious package arrived in our…
There's an almost infinite appeal to me in photographing railroad tracks---appropriately, because the visual metaphor of the railroad track is to show rails that are parallel and never touch. They…
In the Anza Borrego desert the hard-scrabble town of Borrego Springs, California loses most of its population in the summer, when temperatures soar and stay above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. One part…
In the desert life is harsh, and the intensity of light reflects the harshness of conditions. Photography is best at the fringes of the day---the "golden hour" leading up to…
On a wet, sloppy evening with the tide coming in it was fun to photograph the old wooden pier in Cayucos, California. The sky darkened and the storm moved landward---it…
Acclaimed as “origami in a box” and said to be “destined for major museums,” Botanique is an innovative artist project that astutely blends old craft and cutting edge new technologies…
I guess by now I am notorious for using Photoshop as part of my digital photography. After all, I've described my work as "painting using digital photographs as my medium."…
Wabi-sabi is a name for a Japanese philosophical and aesthetic movement with a key tenet of acceptance of the transient nature of all things. According to wabi-sabi, everything passes, and…