A little more than fourteen years ago, my daughter Katie Rose was born very prematurely. Today, Katie's Video Games are Actually Good for Your Brain has been selected to be…
It's fun to use flowers to create animistic shapes on the light box, like good-luck dragons and this "Butter-flower" shown below.
I'm excited to be headed back to Italy this autumn, and have been looking through my archives. What work have I done in Italy, and how can I make progress…
It's amazing what one can do with pasta stars, a light box, and LAB color. Dancing with the Pasta Stars was created using LAB in Photoshop from the version of…
Here are a few of my favorite monochromatic black and white images that I haven't posted in a long time. Apparently, despite its success as a large-sized print, Bolinas Beach…
Having been occupied by family matters lately, it is hard to make the time for flower photography. Work on a light box does not respond well to impatience. The time…
Please consider joining me at Maine Media Workshops on mid-coast Maine in September as autumn has begun for a 5-day photography workshop. The dates are September 12, 2022 - September…
When you look at everyday, household objects with fresh eyes, it is possible to see their magic. For example, someone told me the image below (Jaws Inversion) looks like a…
In my fantasy, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) traveled shortly after the first world war from Texas where she taught drawing to bored college students to New York to meet with her…
As summer becomes full and the days of July rush by, the dahlias are in bloom. Each dalia is different, a unique world unto itself. Some of them remind me…
Artichokes are good to eat. They are a real treat. You peel the leaves to the "meat" inside, in a spiral motion that echoes the visual path in this great,…
We're very pleased to have shipped #17 (out of 25) of the edition of Botanique to a collector in Ohio (thank you!). The photo below shows the display print of Red…
As the official start to summer swings into gear, how wonderful to arrange a light box bouquet. The bouquet is anchored with two-week Iris (also called "Fortnight Lily," Dietes iridioides, a…
Over my garden gate, the Clematis vine is thriving, provided we keep its "feet" moist. Two of the Clematis flowers bloomed together, and I cropped them to make this composition…
In the pre-dawn cool I walked around the house and down to our dahlia bed in the side yard. There was one perfect white blossom. I cropped it, and placed…
We'll be holding a full weekend Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop Saturday August 6 - Sunday August 7, 2022 here on the east side of the San Francisco Bay. This…
Phyllis brought a Phalaenopsis ("moth orchid") home for a short visit to our sunny living room. Leaving the orchid in its decorative pot, I photographed the blossoms using a vertical…
I cut a stalk of Campanulas ("Canterbury Bells") from the garden. I laid the bunch gently on my light box for a sequence of high-key captures (below). Often, photography of…