digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
I've written an article now posted on the Pixsy blog about my technique for photographing flowers for transparency on a light box: What are the steps to mastering the process? Surprisingly,…
Originally published November 24, 2014. Editor's update: After publishing this post, I received a number of inquiries as to what I was doing traveling with "another woman" (Phyllis seems to have…
Originally published June 1, 2015. Editor's update: Phyllis eventually had to pay to have the couch hacked into pieces and hauled away. The response to the Craig's List ad quoted below…
Originally published November 4, 2013 Well, not really. In actual fact, Noriko took me to a wonderful, varied and seasonal dinner at a restaurant with no external signage in the…
Originally published September 22, 2008 Between Earth and Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On our way home from a sunset-to-night hike on the Tomales Point fork…
Originally published June 26, 2013: 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…
Browsing in the produce section of Berkeley Bowl I was transfixed by spiral nature of Romanesco Broccoli, an edible flower in the broccoli family. The flower's form approximates a natural fractal…
Words to Live and Create By Being Creative => peace · joy · love · creativity · harmony · beauty · imagination · exploration Being Loving => freedom · exploration ·…
As a photographer and artist, I'm the kind of person who would much rather look forward than backward. The next adventure, or the next photo, is always more interesting to…
Warm wishes for a joyous and fulfilling new year from Phyllis and myself---from our family to your family! Coming into 2016, it is so important to remember the beauty and…
Over more than a year, I've been working on a series of in-camera multiple exposure images using models in a studio and strobes. Generally, my approach has been to make…
The quest for an interesting photographic image is in large part the need to find order in an inherently chaotic universe. Even if that quest ends up showing disorder, it…
A bright flower for a gray day in the East Bay! For more about photographing this Icelandic Poppy, click here.
I was in New York City just now for 48 hours, give or take an hour or two. It's hard for me to visit New York without sensing a bit…
Phyllis and I like to take out slices of pizza, and eat them in the beautiful garden at Berkeley Horticultural Nurseries. The other day, after having our lunch while sitting…
The Three Graces are actually a three-in-one trinity: this is one model (Anastasia Arteyeva), via an in-camera multiple exposure. Processed for the distinctive---almost cave painting look---using the Da Vinci filter in…
Over the weekend on Saturday I led a fun workshop sponsored by the Point Reyes Field Institute on Point Reyes photographing Waves. I had some very enthusiastic participants and I think…
One reason to photograph at night in a tourist destination is, as I explained in Photographing the Bridge of Sighs at Night, to avoid selfie-stick-toting tour groups. Another reason is…