Category: 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.
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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
It is all about the light 