Canyon Conundrum
The seaside village of Vernazza, Italy makes its living from catching fishes and catering to tourists. Carved into the rocky ledges of the Ligurian coast, behind the village facade facing…
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November 22, 2015
Leaning Tower
On our way from Florence to Cinque Terre on the Ligurian Coast of Italy, we stopped to climb the Leaning Tower---Torre Pendente in Italian---of Pisa. It's a marvelous structure, even…
October 30, 2015
Prague Architectural Studies: Keeping Things Simple with 25 Squares
The assignment: Photograph a sequence or cohesive group of imagery using only one lens, aperture priority metering, and a single aperture and ISO. Process the resulting images using a uniformly-proportioned…
September 23, 2015
Ranch on Point Reyes
On Point Reyes in the spring, I photographed the details of the deteriorating buildings in the historic (but abandoned) D Ranch. Walking back towards my car I turned and saw…
September 19, 2015
From Heaven to Hell
Poet William Blake wrote about building a Hell in Heaven's despite, and the cognitive dissonance of traveling in Japan often put me in mind of this poem of Blake's (which also…
September 4, 2015
Beneath the Pont de la Concorde
The modernism of the underpinnings of this bridge over the Seine River in Paris, France belies the ornate fancifulness of the bridge from above. This is one of the joys of…
August 30, 2015
Unmade Bed in homage to Lilo Raymond
My friend and mentor Lilo Raymond died a few years ago. Lilo was a wonderful photographer with a wonderful eye, who fled from the Nazis as a youth and ended…
August 26, 2015
Happy Birthday Mom
The other day we celebrated my Mom's 86th birthday. My Mom, Virginia Davis, is a working artist, deeply interested in the textiles and art of Mexico. So it seems appropriate that…
August 24, 2015
Old Train Bridge
I photographed this old train bridge in Maine, with the idea of extending the apparent length of the bridge visually as far as I could. To achieve this goal in…
August 17, 2015
Reflections in a Maine Pond
"To be calm, to be serene! There is the calmness of the lake when there is not a breath of wind. . . . So it is with us. Sometimes…
August 16, 2015
Spiral Inside the Pemaquid Lighthouse
Today I visited Pemaquid Point, Maine and its well-known lighthouse. This is still an operational lighthouse, run by the United States Coastguard. After I visited the top of the tower,…
August 13, 2015
Monhegan Island Storm
Monhegan Island is a small island twelve miles off the coast of Maine. There are a handful of year around residents who mostly fish for lobster, many artists who come…
August 11, 2015
Schloss Shadow
My bags are packed, I'm ready to go---so its the perfect time to work on some back images on my production machine. This castle shadow is from my recent stay…
July 31, 2015
White Dahlia
Every time I am away for an extended trip Phyllis seems to embark on a home improvement project. This time, while I was in the Czech Republic and giving my…
July 12, 2015
Engine at Primo’s Garage
This is a photo of an engine-in-progress at Primo's Garage, photographed during my recent Black and White Masterclass in Heidelberg, Germany, and used as in-class post-processing example.
July 7, 2015
House of Mirrors, Prague
On top of Petrinske Sady (Petrin Hill) in Prague, Czech Republic is a tower built to replicate the Eiffel Tower at 1/5 scale. From the top of the tower, it…
July 6, 2015
Oh, Heidelberg!
The other evening I strolled along Heidelberg's Philosopher's Walk with my camera and tripod. I stopped to make several photographs, including this exposure blend looking down on the Alte Brucke.…
July 3, 2015
Prague Metamorphosis
With Prague's grand castles and elegant squares overflowing with happy visitors and marquee shopping it is easy to forget that this is also the city of Franz Kafka. Metamorphosis happens…
June 25, 2015