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  • Four treatments of one photo in Adobe Photoshop

    This is a short tutorial showing four possible treatments of a photograph, using Photoshop and layers.

  • Leave no trace

    My Lee Polarizer filter fell in Taylor Creek last time I was out there. Lake Tahoe was very dry.

  • Folhas Secas, part four

    This is the fourth post about my project “Folhas Secas”. I talk about test printing my photos as a means to help me choose my “best work” to post on my online portfolio.

  • October, life still

    Today’s featured photograph is a seasonal still life celebrating the harvest in the Northern Hemisphere.

  • Marine layer, Rodeo Beach

    Long exposure photography on a foggy morning at the Marin Headlands. It is finally raining in the Central Valley of California!

  • Folhas Secas, part three

    I explain the basic differences in the leaves of tropical and Mediterranean-climate plants and show one of the sets-ups I use to photograph leaves when using artificial light.

  • Autumn Day 

    Martis’ Creek Cabin near Tahoe last year was surrounded by yellow aspens and reminds me of the poem Autumn Day by Reiner Maria Rilke

  • Folhas Secas, part two

    My first steps working on the project “Folhas Secas” included defining my vision, laying out a set of guidelines to work with, taking test shots, and finding a logical way to organize them.

  • Folhas Secas, a new project

    While in Brazil, I started a project photographing decaying leaves, which I will continue to execute and talk about in future posts.

  • The sunset of my trip and file workflow – Another sunset from Pedra de Itaipava (Petrópolis, Brazil)

    The days end in sunsets and my trip to Brazil ended with a long airplane flight back to the USA. If you think that flying internationally could not get any worse, think again, with a mask on. On a previous post, Sunset, Pedra de Itaipava, I shared a sunset photograph from a hike. I took…