Platala
My goal with an image like Platala is to create a field that is so visually lush that it is distracting. This kind of image should be beautiful, with so many…
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October 31, 2019
Happy Hydrangeas
I added some red carnation petals to the Hydrangea Blossoms composition. The result is a really emotive light box image: this piece says "happiness" to me.
October 30, 2019
Progression
Progression 1, shown above, is an image designed to be visually to be read from left to right. Creating this kind of fantastic decorative imagery takes more than a little…
October 28, 2019
Printed, Signed, and Curing
This batch of prints are signed. We'll let them cure a couple of days, then they will be ready for their new homes! Printed on Juniper Baryta, with special thanks…
October 27, 2019
Fish Eye (Literally)
Recipe: Take a dark, turgid decorative pond wherein dwell some not very Coy Koi. Throw in a probe wide-angle macro lens. Make sure the macro probe is water proof at…
October 26, 2019
Hydrangea Blossoms
These hydrangea petals were placed on a light box. I photographed them above with my Nikon D850 using the techniques explained in my Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop, and below…
October 25, 2019
Eye Candy
Here are three images from the "Eye Candy" files. Nautilus and Inversion (above, click on the image or here to view it larger) is a single photo of two halves of…
October 23, 2019
Vitruvian Woman
In honor of the quincentennial of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, there will be numerous exhibitions of the master's work. His Vitruvian Man drawing in particular was subject to a…
October 20, 2019
Garden Shrine
This a photograph of a niche shrine in a garden outbuilding---a rather elaborate shed---at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, also known as Green Dragon Temple (Soryu-ji). This Zen Center…
October 16, 2019
Dandelions and the Rolling Stones
These two images are extreme close-ups of Dandelions magnified to about twice life size using the Laowa FF 100mm F2.8 CA-Dreamer Macro 2X lens. Did the Rolling Stones get it…
October 15, 2019
Lost Coast of California
Some two hundred miles north of San Francisco, California lies a wilderness area known as the Lost Coast. In these ever-more-crowded times, the sobriquet "Lost Coast" is often used with…
October 12, 2019
Falling into Spirals
Click here to view the image larger. Just returning from a photography trip to California's Lost Coast, with images to post after I get a chance to process them. But…
October 11, 2019
Spirals of the Heart
Heart like a wheel, the heart is a lonely hunter, take another little piece of my heart, many are the songs, stories, and quotes and sayings related to the heart.…
October 5, 2019
Through the Rabbit Hole
It is easy to go down the rabbit hole when you love spirals! I have been dreaming of these stairs, over and over again, obsessively. And so I spend my…
October 4, 2019
Gaillardia-gami
Carefully, I constructed this image. I composed it from two LAB color adjustments of a close-up photo of a Gaillardia flower (common name "blanket flower"). The finished composition was intended…
October 2, 2019
Play it again mit feeling
Click here to view Sound of the Sea larger. These two composite images in pano format involve repetition of the same image in different guises: flipped back-to-back, flipped vertically, with…
October 1, 2019