Skully
This is a photo of Homer Simpson's skull. Actually, it is of a talking Halloween object---the eye-ball lights flash, the jaw moves, and it repeats back whatever is said to…
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September 30, 2015
Ringing Cedars Covers
Of all the assignments in my photography career, one of the ones I am proudest of is the cover imagery for the second edition of the Ringing Cedar Series in…
September 29, 2015
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…
September 28, 2015
Passion for Flowers
A passion for flower photography is of course one of my ruling passions. What better way to show it than by photographing this Passiflora ("passion flower") from a vine outside our…
September 26, 2015
Prague Architectural Studies: Keeping Things Simple with 25 Squares
The assignment: Photograph a sequence or cohesive group of imagery using only one lens, aperture priority metering, and a single aperture and ISO. Process the resulting images using a uniformly-proportioned…
September 23, 2015
Paris in the Spring
Click here to download the Reservation Form. A $500 early-registration discount applies before October 31, 2015. There's nothing like photographing Paris in the spring! Let's spend a week together this…
September 20, 2015
Ranch on Point Reyes
On Point Reyes in the spring, I photographed the details of the deteriorating buildings in the historic (but abandoned) D Ranch. Walking back towards my car I turned and saw…
September 19, 2015
Last chance for an incredible trip-of-a-lifetime photo tour to Italy
We have room for two more in my very small "trip of a lifetime" photo tour of Italy beginning October 28 in Florence. This is your last chance to register…
September 18, 2015
Strahov Monastery Library
The photo in this story is of the Philosophical Hall, part of the library of the massive Strahov Monastery in the hills above Prague in the Czech Republic which I…
September 15, 2015
The poet among the photographers
My sponsor Zeiss has announced a spectacular new line of lenses, the "Milvus" lenses. As a prelude to the product launch, I got to work with two of the lenses,…
September 10, 2015
Kreativ Fotografieren: Entfallen Sie Ihr fotografiches Potenzial
As you can see in the photo, I am very pleased with the German translation of Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer: A Photographer's Creative Companion and Workbook. This is…
September 9, 2015
A portfolio by Harold Davis: A Modern Pilgrimage along the Kumano Kodo
A Modern Pilgrimage: Along the Kumano Kodo by Harold Davis is an artist book and portfolio of images that astutely blends old-craft hand traditions and materials with and cutting-edge new…
September 7, 2015
Katie and Mask
Katie Rose loves to draw and paint, and make things like the mask shown in the photo. If you ask her, she'll tell you she wants to be an artist…
September 6, 2015
From Heaven to Hell
Poet William Blake wrote about building a Hell in Heaven's despite, and the cognitive dissonance of traveling in Japan often put me in mind of this poem of Blake's (which also…
September 4, 2015
Long Live Blur!
Much of the time we photographers are concerned with sharpness---how to make a photo that is "tack sharp," how to manage depth-of-field (or even how to focus stack), how to…
September 3, 2015
Denali, the Great One, Alaska by Harold Davis
The long overdue official renaming of Mount McKinley to Denali, Alaska, and the resulting outcry from the State of Ohio (the birthplace of President McKinley), puts me in mind of my…
September 1, 2015