Through a Glass Lightly
The last few years have been traveling years for me. This means time in restaurants. Sometimes alone. Waiting for food. Or with a crowd out eating, but alone inside. Either…
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July 3, 2018
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Solar Flare
Here's the latest in my series of mandala images on a light box, this one with petals circling around a sunflower. The outer ring consists of "stars" from a flowering…
June 29, 2018
Tulip Petal Detail after Karl Blossfeldt
Who knew that tulip stems could curl symmetrically with four looping branches? When I saw this, it reminded me of some of the flora photographed by Karl Blossfeldt. Blossfeldt's original…
June 26, 2018
Two from the iPhone files
Dogwood Flowers in a Bowl and Poppies and Echinaceas were both photographed with my iPhone camera. These were arrangements that were "collateral damage" to having flowers around from my garden…
June 21, 2018
Garden Flowers with Dogwood
This pair of images consists of a light box composition on white, and its LAB L-channel inversion on black. My thoughts are turning to Photographing Flowers for Transparency, as I…
June 19, 2018
The Passion of the Rose
For me, photography is about passion, vision, and seeing the world closely. Oh, I could give you some technical information about how this image was made. For example, I could…
June 16, 2018
White Daemon Series
The idea of this series of photos, created in collaboration with the model A Nude Muse, was to create images that were simultaneously attractive, eerie, uncanny, and otherworldly. Ignoring the…
June 12, 2018
Poppies Dancing on Black
This image is an LAB inversion of the L-channel of Poppies Dancing, with blacks and white interchanged.
June 11, 2018
Visit Paris in the Spring with a small group of Photographers
Visit Paris in the Spring with a small group of photographers. Early-bird discount applies. Click here for more information.
June 10, 2018
Vegetarian Homage to Anthony Bourdain
This is a breakfast avocado burrito that Phyllis made for Nicky, who is a vegetarian. Hopefully, Anthony Bourdain, who very sadly died yesterday, was quoted in his Washington Post obituary…
June 9, 2018
Poppies Dancing
In the great light of the world flowers are creatures too, and love to sway and dance in the breeze. In extraordinary beauty there is humor and escape from the…
June 8, 2018
Relaxation in Rural France
Down the path to the Lot River from the Mas de Garrigue are a few rural homes on the bluff. I could easily imagine sitting here, perhaps reading a good…
June 5, 2018
Petals on Parade
This is one of the light box compositions I've made using the glorious spring weather in northern California since I've been home from Spain!
June 4, 2018
Summer Grass
In the traffic island in the middle of our Morning Glory Circle, as spring turns to summer the grass is drying and turning a California brown. I cut and carefully…
May 29, 2018
Cala Galdana
In 1969, Cala Galdana was a quiet and deserted sandy cove on the Balearic island of Menorca, off the Mediterranean coast of Spain. No human structures were in evidence, other…
May 28, 2018
Composition with Delphinium and Poppies
Composition with Delphinium and Poppies is a good example showing one of the organizing principles I teach in my Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop and my books. The first premise…
May 27, 2018
Papaver Rhoeas
What joy to come home to my family and garden in Berkeley, and find spring still in bloom! These are two Papaver rhoeas---corn poppies---from our garden. I photographed each on…
May 26, 2018
Seriously Twisted
Here's a four-panel construction based on the spiral image shown above using rotations and reflections: Related stories showing the same staircase: Waiting for Escher and Triple-Spiral Stair.
May 23, 2018