Adventures in a higher key
I photographed these tulips on a light box using my normal shooting sequence, but when the time came to process them I did things somewhat differently. The normal workflow is…
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March 29, 2014
Hip to be square
An important part of the gentle art of photographic composition is to recognize that we are rendering a three-dimensional world, in part by presenting it within a two-dimensional frame. An…
March 27, 2014
Photographer as Poet
When people learn that I am a professional photographer, it is not unusual for them to ask me next what kind of photographer I am. The answer is trickier than it might…
March 26, 2014
Awagami Video with Botanique
I'm really pleased to note a new professionally-made video from Awagami about photographers who print on Awagami washi that shows my Botanique. The video can be played below, embedded from…
March 25, 2014
Rose after Delauney and O’Keeffe
At a recent lunch with my brother he reminded me how we both benefited from a classical education in the arts when we were young. I may not have got…
March 24, 2014
Flowers for the vernal equinox
To celebrate the spring equinox yesterday, here are some Tulips and Anemones shot on my light box for translucency (a white ranunculus peeks through on the upper left as well!).…
March 21, 2014
Kaleidoscope of Flowers
Spring has come, and I know it's true because I have anemones and ranunculae to add to my tulips on my light box for back lighting. Fun to create a…
March 18, 2014
Best Of Botanicals: National Juried Photography Exhibition
Best Of Botanicals: National Juried Photography Exhibition A Benefit for San Francisco Botanical Garden Call for entries. Entries are due: April 3, 2014 From classical to contemporary, from desert to rain forest, from bud to decay, the natural form…
March 5, 2014
Flowers Squared
I have been thinking about square compositions, for example, with these Nautilus Shells. So why not create some square versions of my light box flowers? This is actually harder from…
February 26, 2014
Otus and me
I shot this photo of tulips in a crowd with my new Otus. Otus's more formal designation is the Otus 1.4/55, and is, in the words of the manufacturer Zeiss, quite…
February 16, 2014
Tulip Pano
This tulip panorama was shot on a light box in three segments. Each segment is made up of six exposures, so there are eighteen exposures in all. In post-production, first…
February 14, 2014
Tulips
I have been working on a series of Tulip imagery that I shot almost a year ago, and haven't had the time to process before now. These were shot on…
February 12, 2014
Opium Poppies
It's perfectly legal in this country to cultivate the Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum, for decorative purposes. But this pretty flower, shown in the image below, has long caused wild dreams…
February 8, 2014
Flowering Quince
The red flowering quince are particularly gorgeous this year in my neighborhood, and I can't resist putting some of them on my light box. These flowers have a simple elegance…
January 30, 2014
Through a glass lightly
I lit a passion flower (passiflora) from the rear and left, so that the light reflected off the flower onto the neck of a glass bottle with a rather tall…
January 11, 2014
White Chrysanthemums at Giverny
At a casual glance, this is a fairly simple selective focus image of lush white flowers in an autumn garden. Actually, there's more to it photographically than meets the eye.…
December 24, 2013
Red red rose
As many times as I photograph roses I never have enough! There is always a different way to approach a rose, or any other flower for that matter. Verily, there…
December 13, 2013
Win free enrollment in my online Mastering Flower Photography course
My online course Mastering Flower Photography is going live soon! In the meantime, you can be entered in a random drawing to win a free course by clicking here and…
October 25, 2013