Magic in Everyday Things
In the morning, Phyllis called me over. She had the vitamin bottle upended, looking inside for pills she noticed them on the circumference of the circle at the bottom spread…
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August 31, 2019
Petal Pushing
I'm back at my old habits, building compositions constructed from flower petals on a light box, photographing the assemblage in high-key HDR, then combining for transparency in Photoshop, finally inverting…
August 30, 2019
Bailey Island, Maine
Like a narrow finger, Bailey Island extends into Casco Bay on the Atlantic coast of Maine. It's connected to the mainland, some thirty miles away, via a narrow bridge of…
August 25, 2019
Clematis that Remains
This spiral structure is what remains when you don't deadhead a Clematis flower, and leave it on the vine. You can see how the core of the flower has expanded…
August 24, 2019
Free Webinar: Creative Black and White Opportunities
Please join me for a free webinar about Black and White creative opportunities. The webinar is scheduled for Tuesday August 29 at 11AM PT, with free registration on a first-come-first-served…
August 20, 2019
Class Demo
At the end of the Garden Photography workshop this past week, I quickly arranged some flowers on an LED panel to demonstrate my Photographing Flowers for Transparency technique. This LED…
August 16, 2019
Eye Dahlia
Sometimes individual flowers call out to me as so unique that I need to photograph them on their own. This rather small dahlia, photographed at the Endless Summer Dahlia Farm,…
August 16, 2019
Garden Gate
Gardens are about more than flowers. An important component of any garden is how you get in, or if you get in at all. Gardens have entrances and exits, and,…
August 15, 2019
It Be a Bee then Froggie and Me
The real denizens of any garden are the animals and insects. We humans are just visiting and passing through. I found the frog, or the frog found me, in the…
August 13, 2019
Endless Summer Dahlia Farm
The Endless Summer Dahlia Farm, in Rockport, Maine, is an incredible place run by nice folks with very exceptional dahlias. Here are a few, photographed the other day.
August 12, 2019
Finding the Attic
Phyllis just reminded me via Facetime that Maine is "Stephen King" country. So it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I opened a door I had never noticed…
August 11, 2019
Celebrating LAB Color
I'm really pleased with a comment in my Instagram feed about my Creative LAB Color in Photoshop course: "I am currently taking your LAB editing course on LinkedIn. And I…
August 9, 2019
From O’Keeffe to Blossfeldt…or, is it a Davis photo?
I've long been tickled to find my Kiss from a Rose attributed as a Georgia O'Keeffe painting. To be clear: tickled for my work to be confused with the great…
August 6, 2019
Now open for registration: 2020 Flowers for Transparency Workshop
We are pleased to announce the 2020 session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency with Harold Davis (June 20-21, 2020) to be held in Berkeley, CA. Click here for more information,…
August 4, 2019
Now You See: Two Pods and a Bee
Yesterday I photographed at a local garden, and came back with images of a bee, and two flowers gone to seed. I used the Lensbaby Velvet 85mm f/1.8 for each…
August 1, 2019
LAB Color Variations
From the block-print-like flower composition on white (shown second from the bottom of this story), I used LAB color to apply individual color channel adjustments to create the eight variations…
August 1, 2019