Topography of Camellia
In the wake of the death of my parents, I created a new garden on the shaded side of our house. This is a mostly ignored narrow strip between our…
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February 12, 2023
Flower like a shell
I've been working on photographing a group of white Calla Lilies the past few days. With this image, I tried to abstract the flower so that it seemed almost like…
March 14, 2022
Rubin’s Vase Optical Illusion with Harold’s Profile
Rubin's Vase is a well-known optical illusion developed by Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin whose primary research field was figure-ground perception. When you look at the image above, do you see…
November 16, 2021
Cymbidium Orchid and Sidewalk
The Cymbidium Orchid image is a reprocess of a 2016 light box image, with a background texture added at the behest of a client. The Cymbidium grows outdoors in our…
August 26, 2021
Petals on Parade
These two "petal-pushing" images start with a composition of alstroemeria petals, photographed for high-key HDR on a light box. The image with a black background (shown above) is an LAB…
January 22, 2021
The Beet Goes On
In parts of the Caribbean, edible root vegetables are often called "ground provisions." Yesterday was a ground-provisions day. I primarily photographed beets and radishes. This is a continuation of my…
August 28, 2020
Melange of Slices
Just like the aggregation of pear slices, it is possible to create interesting melanges of all kinds of sliced fruits and vegetables. The sliced kiwi fruits (below) remind me of…
August 27, 2020
Food ink blot
I made this image using milk, water, olive oil, vinegar, and food colors, and then photographed the result.
June 28, 2019
Sunflower Mandala
The Peruvian lily (botanically alstroemeria), or "Lily of the Incas," was once limited to two small ranges in South America, one blooming in the winter (Chile), and one in the…
April 17, 2019
Quartet
Quartet (click here to see it larger) is one photo duplicated three times. The duplicates have been rotated 90 degrees, and in two cases flipped along an axis as well.…
April 8, 2019
Curves Ahead
Starting with sunlight coming through vessels with color, I pared down my abstractions. But lately we have been under a river of rain. Sunlight is scarce. But it doesn't take…
February 16, 2019
Approaching Indigo
The early use of "indigo" referred to indigo dye made from Indigofera tinctoria and related species, and not specifically to a color. In the 1660s, Isaac Newton bought a pair of prisms…
January 29, 2019
Playing with Light
For the past few days of the break between Christmas and New Years, I have been playing with light. Of course, the word photography is derived from "writing with light"---and…
December 29, 2018
Life Is Strange—Further Abstractions and some Abstract Thoughts
Life is strange. We take inspiration, and the other self-actualization needs and desires that are high up the Maslow hierarchy, where we can find them. From within the prison of…
December 16, 2018