The View from Inside a Bottle
I inserted my Laowa macro probe lens into a bottle, a carafe, and a glass to make the images shown here from (literally) inside glassware. Interesting to have a completely…
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May 31, 2020
Patterns in Glass
Well, I'm off again. This time, not on a road trip or great adventure on a pilgrimage trail, but rather a trip to "inner space," photographing glass on a light…
May 30, 2020
High Key to Low Key and Back Again
Today Phyllis and I gave the second webinar in our black and white series. This episode showed conversion to black and white, starting from a few images that I made…
May 26, 2020
By Twos and Threes
Sometimes my flowers come all in a group with no social distancing at all. Other times, my flowers come in twos and threes. Which do you like better?
May 25, 2020
Cactus Flowers
Down a few blocks, and around the corner, some wonderful cactus flowers bloomed in a pot on the street. Walking with one of my sons we passed the flowers in…
May 25, 2020
Photographing Bottled Light Challenge
My Capturing Bottled Light Photo Challenge is now available for viewing (without charge) courtesy of Out of Chicago. You can also purchase access to the entire set of Out of…
May 20, 2020
Eye of the Tower
In mid-February of this year, I photographed at the massive Tower Arch in the back country of Arches National Park, in Utah. Time was short because the winter day was…
May 18, 2020
Red Poppy
All the richness and wealth in the world cannot compare with the worth and beauty at the core of a single flower, and how the flower makes me feel!
May 17, 2020
Creative Black and White Webinar, Part 2: The Assignment
I'm teaching the second live webinar in the Creative Black and White series on Tuesday, May 26 at 10am PT. Here's the registration link. I've decided to take a chance…
May 14, 2020
Birds of Paradise in a Glass Vase
Yesterday I photographed five Birds of Paradise flowers (Strelitzia reginae, a plant closely related to the banana incidentally) from our garden on a light box. Specifically, the flowers were upright…
May 14, 2020
Looking Backward
"It's tough to predict things, particularly about the future," as baseball catcher and American wit Yogi Berra said. And, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,"…
May 6, 2020
Building a Photographic Community During Tough Times
Dear Fellow Photographers: An important part of our idea in launching our live photography webinar series while sheltering in place (today is Day 50 since we've been locked down, by…
May 1, 2020