Home, Peonies, and Irises
I've been traveling a month and a day---with x-ray photography, a lovely group in Paris (the after-hours session in Monet's garden at Giverny was probably my favorite part), and a…
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May 23, 2019
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
The Scallop Shell Symbol on the Camino
If you've walked the Camino de Santiago, you'll have followed a route marked with scallop shell symbols. Along with many other pilgrims, I have a scallop shell hanging from my…
May 19, 2019
Garden along the Camino
Someone had built this garden beside the trail in the nook beside an old stone wall, with its rose trellis across a small spring. Now, half wild, the garden was…
May 16, 2019
Blue Arrow and Yellow Arrow
The algorithm for following one of the pilgrimage trails to Santiago de Compostela is really pretty simple: follow the yellow arrows, or the well-known Camino clamshell trail markers. If you…
May 14, 2019
Ponte Sampaio
Built on a Roman foundation, the Ponte Sampaio is the site of a decisive battle to liberate Galicia from Napoleon's French army under Marshal Ney in 1809. For more on…
May 13, 2019
Last Gas
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…
May 9, 2019
Roman Bridges of Galicia
There are literally hundreds of Roman bridges in Galicia, many used by or adjacent to the Camino Portuguese. Some of these are more recent constructions on the Roman-engineered foundations, but…
May 9, 2019
Giverny Afternoon
I visited Monet's wonderful garden at Giverny with my small group of photographers. In the late afternoon, we had the garden mostly to ourselves and were able to photograph in…
May 1, 2019
Temple of Mercury
Within Schwetzingen Garden, the Temple of Mercury is an intentional ruin from the late 1700s. Built to romantically fall down, the question today is how to conserve a structure intended…
April 28, 2019
Enchanted Castle Garden
My friend's friend had a key to the side gate into the grand garden of the Schwetzingen Castle. The friend's friend was prevailed upon to let us into the garden…
April 23, 2019
Visual Palindrome
A palindrome is a phrase that is the same read backwards and forwards. Some examples are Madam I'm Adam, A man a plan a canal Panama, and of course Napoleon's…
April 22, 2019
Reflections in the Untersee
Before coming to Lake Konstanz, I didn't have a very good sense of its geography, other than Lake Konstanz was on the border of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. My friends…
April 21, 2019
Excited about new upcoming adventures
I'm excited about my upcoming trip to Europe. I'll be in Germany working with my friend Julian Kopke to make more x-rays and fusions x-rays, then leading a small group…
April 10, 2019
Wisteria Gate
The wisteria are in bloom around town. Their lush blues and purples, and lavish grape-juice odor, dominate the staid landscape of "the flats." In the hills, the wisteria are not…
April 9, 2019
What are these tulip photos about?
An important question when looking at a photo is, What is this photo about? In the case of an image of a single flower blossom, likely candidates depend where the image is…
April 6, 2019
Pale Garden
From our garden I cut clematis, clivia, and iris. The tulips were store-bought. I assembled a composition to echo Flowers of Spring's Desire and Poppies and Mallows, but using a…
April 2, 2019
Our side door
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…
March 31, 2019
Explorations, projects, digital collages, constructions, and more
I confess: sometimes I lose track of my own work. Lately---over the past year or so---I've been working on related themes, groupings of images that are tightly, or loosely, linked.…
February 25, 2019