Category: Black and white Photography
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A view from Morro do Bonet, Rocio (Petrópolis, Brazil)
This post is about a black and white landscape taken from Morro do Bonet, Rocio, RJ, Brazil, a view often dominated by fog.
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Maria Comprida from Morro da Mensagem (Petrópolis, Brazil)
This post is about Maria Comprida, a mountain peak that dominates the landscape view from Itaipava (Petrópolis, Brazil), and which is a good subject for black and white photography.
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The leaf of the Embaúba (Cecropia)
One of my favorite trees for photography in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil is the Embaúba (Cecropia). In this post I talk about this leaf and give tips on how to photograph it.
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California Dreaming
A somewhat late welcome to the most depressing time in California, Fire Season. Today we finally got our first “fire sky” here in the Central Valley. The sun peeps through a dense layer of smoke and throws a beautiful, golden light on things. From a photographer’s point of view, there is…
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Pacific Dogwood Flowers at Big Trees, part two
Upon closer scrutiny of my photos from Calaveras, however, I did find a couple of photographs that succeeded in showing dogwood flowers in front of the Giant Sequoia.
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Chloroplast, the book
I self-published a photography book based on my “Chloroplast” portfolio using BookWright.
It is all about the light 