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  • Chloroplast, the book

    I self-published a photography book based on my “Chloroplast” portfolio using BookWright.

  • Celebrating the sunflower season

    This year I decided to celebrate the sunflower season with a digital art portraying the sequencial wilting of a sunflower. I combined several pictures into one using photoshop layers then I added a stone texture.

  • Monochrome abstractions in Point Reyes

    In this post I show a few examples of abstractions in monochrome, following up with the previous one, which was about abstractions in color.

  • Landscape abstractions in color

    On a trip to Mono Lake I photographed the Tufas in sunset and with the help of Lee color filters, I created a landscape abstraction

  • Lotus photography, William Land Park

    A found Lotus leaves dancing in the wind at the William Land Park in Sacramento, and that was more fun than photographing the flowers in bloom.

  • Wild Horse Photography in Public Lands

    In this post I talk about a trip I did to photograph wild horses in Mono Lake, California, in the beginning of June, 2021.

  • Beyond Sacramento’s Colorful Murals

    During a walk to see Sacramento’s murals, I became aware of the beautiful and meaningful work of Gale Filter, a local photographer who portais homeless people, sometimes including the city’s colorful murals.

  • Ocean Waves at Point Reyes

    I was proud that I was able to have a good time and photograph at Point Reyes despite a missing item for long exposure. Not so proud to find out, when I got home, that the item had been inside my backpack all along

  • Give me Something to Fight About

    Is there any issue in photography, not mentioned above, that you would be willing to argue about?

  • Pacific Dogwood Flowers at Big Trees

    “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade” Popular saying.  On Mother’s Day, May 8th, and on Mon, May 17th, I walked the South Grove Trail at the Calaveras Big Trees State Park with a composition on my mind: I wanted a shot of the blooming Pacific Dogwood, Cornus nuttallii, against the trunk of a Giant Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum. If you are…