Swinging under the stars
The world's best swing is under an old oak tree on the Bolinas plateau facing the Mount Tamalpais ridge line. It is shown here under the oak tree by starlight…
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July 9, 2013
New Workshop: Monochromatic HDR in the Big Sur landscape
Friday, September 27 through Sunday, September 29, 2013---Sponsored by the Center for Photographic Art (CPA), Carmel, CA Click here to register for the Monochromatic HDR in the Big Sur Landscape…
July 7, 2013
Sacré Coeur Passage
La Basilique du Sacré Coeur de Montmartre sits high on a hill overlooking Paris. Controversial from long before the start of construction, the design of Sacré Coeur was a response to…
June 26, 2013
Does a sunset need color?
Photographing from Hawk Hill was truly one of those great moments in the life of a photographer. In front, the extra-large June "super moon" cleared the city of San Francisco…
June 25, 2013
What’s behind the door?
Walking back to the hotel from Les Invalides I stopped to put on my macro lens and photograph this incredible door knocker. I think this was on the Rue de…
June 16, 2013
Coming and Going
The entrance to the Chateau de Nazelles is shown in this image, photographed coming in through the tunnel beneath the primary structure. This kind of image is simply not possible…
June 10, 2013
Chartres
Looking up at Chartres is a memorable experience! What a vast amount of effort, creativity, engineering and spirituality over what a long period of time went into building this structure.…
June 6, 2013
Beneath the Surface
To make this photo-collage, I shot a number of bracketed exposure sequences of individual shells on a white background. I then auto HDR processed each sequence, converting to monochromatic HDR…
May 31, 2013
Room with a View
In photography, as in life, there are always at least two points of view: that of the camera, and that of the subject. My title for Room with a View may…
May 28, 2013
Eiffel Tower from Sacre Coeur Dome
Up about three hundred claustrophobic steps in a narrow, winding staircase lies the gallery around the exterior of the dome of the Basilica of Sacre Coeur in Montmartre. This place…
May 18, 2013
Chateau de Nazelles
The Chateau de Nazelles is located a few miles from Amboise in the Loire Valley. Built by some of the same craftsmen that constructed Chenonceau Chateau, today it is a…
May 16, 2013
Eiffel
Reviled when it was built as a fun house rocket ship and aesthetic monstrosity, it's amazing how the Tour Eiffel in fact manifests visual grace with decorative flourishes and curls…
May 15, 2013
Beside the Seine
Amazing that one can leave San Francisco and in one day be photographing in Paris! This is a view of the Seine River from the Ile St Louis in the…
April 22, 2013
The Unphotographed Photos
What happens when a photo is a file that languishes in a folder? It may be a little like the tree falling in the forest without recognition. Here are some…
April 18, 2013
Windswept Sea
Last week I spent some time wandering on Point Reyes with my oldest son Julian (he was off from school for the week). The land and sea were swept by…
April 14, 2013
New $10,000 Stretch Goal for Monochromatic Visions
I'm very excited that our Monochromatic Visions Kickstarter was funded in less than 24 hours! Thanks so very for your support. Because of all the excitement around the Monochromatic Visions portfolio, I’ve added…
April 13, 2013
The infinitesimal and the infinite
I think perhaps that The Incredible Shrinking Man, a 1957 film about a man who shrinks to nothing following an encounter with a radioactive cloud, had an indelible impact on a portion…
April 4, 2013
Living at the border of immensity
I looked out over the vast Arizona plateau leading to the great canyon made by the Colorado Rover. The late autumn sun was setting quickly, creating shadows in the undulating…
April 2, 2013