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…
In common with many photographers, I like to collect visual oddities. Yellow Stanchion, below, is odd because of the prosaic foreground subject contrasted with the almost elegiac background of the…
Special thanks to Jeff Sullivan and the attendees of our Night Photography webinar yesterday! Thanks to you, we were able to contribute $972.57 to Alameda County Community Food Bank. According…
I have "minted" two NFTs---non-fungible tokens. To break this down a little further, to mint an asset such as a digital file means to place it on the blockchain. Placing…
A while back, in the pre-pandemic era, I visited the International Car Forest of the Last Church. This so-called "Car Forest" is more like a car garden than a forest.…
The Black and White cookie, shown here in an iPhone grab shot converted to black and white in Snapseed, goes by many names. In New York City, where I come…
I found this signage advertising the "latest" bar on the Camino Portuguese shortly before the Spanish border where the great pilgrimage trail crosses the River Minho to Tui, Spain. By…
We generally prefer folks use our front door, where there is a nice sheltered porch for Amazon to leave their near-constant droppings. But of course if you are a friend…
French signage found in small towns in "deep France" around the Dordogne: Enchanted Mushroom (for a speciality restaurant); Dog on a toilet (for a doggie run); and two pigs for…
When a guy in Vietnam feels the need for an increase in, shall we say, manliness, potency, and virility, he reaches not for a little blue pill but rather for…
Ever since the era of Adam and Eve, there has been something enticing about an apple!
Of course, this leads to a grammatical question: Is the implied subject female or fabric? Methinks it could be either, or maybe both.
Here's an ad I wrote for Craig's List recently about one of the two couches we are trying to get rid of: Too many folks trying to crash at your…
My Kirk BH-3 tripod ball head has served me well on four continents on the trail, in the studio, in mountains, deserts, and along the rugged Pacific host, from the…
One of my favorite characters in fantasy literature, J.R.R. Tolkein's Smeagol, would have appreciated the nice, plump and juicy slab of fish I brought back from the store. The fish…