Category: Black and white Photography
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Give me Something to Fight About
Is there any issue in photography, not mentioned above, that you would be willing to argue about?
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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…
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The Movement of the Waves
There are some cliffs at the Rodeo Beach in Marin County from where I like to make abstract photographs of the ocean. The short movie below, taken with my Motorola cell phone, was made from one of those cliffs a few minutes before I took the sequence of images above.…
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Fading beauty photography
The Only Constant in Life Is Change.- Heraclitus The other day, after noticing how the flower above had turned into such a wild old lady with the “hair” all messed up, I could not resist making a portrait of it. Aging is a common experience to all of us, and…
It is all about the light 