Due to many requests I have added a new session of the Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop, Saturday, February 22---Sunday, February 23, 2014. Click here for information and online registration for…
To get a shot like this of waterdrops means getting wet, particularly when it is raining. And raining it was in Hudson Gardens in Littleton, Colorado where I was taping…
Flowers of Late Summer was shot on a lightbox using my Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 lens and the full-frame Nikon D800. Layering the 36MP RAW captures brought my computer down to…
I am pleased to announce a new Harold Davis poster from Editions Limited. It is called Vibrance, measures 24" X 36", and is shown below. See related story: Editions Limited…
I am judging a flower contest on Photo.net: "Flowers find a way into vacation, portraiture, wedding, landscape, fine art and nearly any kind of photography collection you can think of.…
Please check out my new column on Photo.net, Placing a Flower Photo on a Background. Stay tuned for the sequel, coming next month to Photo.net, explaining how to add a texture…
As long as I can remember I have admired Claude Monet's waterlilies, so finally getting to visit Monet's garden at Giverny was like a pilgrimage for me. My group (shown here…
Hard to see among the debris at the forest floor, the tiny Calypso orchid can be photographed when conditions are right on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais for brief periods…
Wabi-sabi is a name for a Japanese philosophical and aesthetic movement with a key tenet of acceptance of the transient nature of all things. According to wabi-sabi, everything passes, and…
The tulips that I found last week at the North Berkeley Farmers Market have transmogrified into fantastical shapes and forms as they age and illustrate wabi-sabi in action. Like the…
It's hard to imagine two subjects that are more over-photographed than sunsets and flowers. Of course, there's a reason that something is a popular subject for photography. It's wonderful to…
The North Berkeley farmer's market, on a stretch of streets sometimes known as the "gourmet ghetto," is certified organic throughout. Cruising with my camera, I spotted a flower vendor, Thomas Farm,…
I've been spending time in my garden this week, getting it ready for spring. Actually, around here it is spring already, with sunny weather in the sixties. My poppy seedlings…
The pages of Botanique---my hand made, limited edition artist book---have all been printed. Some of them are shown here on the table formerly known as our dining room table. You…
This Magnolia stellata was clipped from a flowering hedge in my neighborhood that borders a major avenue and photographed for maximum translucency. It makes a great print on Kozo washi…
In Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle ice-nine is a crystal with the power to freeze all life on earth, perhaps as I did with these yellow roses. Not really! Nor…
An expression of joy and hope with the coming of a new year can be lavish in size, or small indeed. This dandelion, shot from below and skyward, exhibits points…
A collector just ordered a copy of my Hellebore Stems (shown below). Originally, I shot the hellebores on a white background. To print the image on Moenkopi Kozo Washi I…