Category: Black and white Photography
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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…
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Tufted Poppy (Eschscholzia caespitosa) in black and white
The California poppy is the official state flower and is flowering now in the Central Valley.
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Light and Shadow
Architectural photographs highlighting the interplay of light and shadow
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Splash
I don’t know if wave splashes in long exposure have any artistic value, but they are sure fun to obtain. They are also impossible to replicate. Taking a long exposure photograph is looking at the scene in whole different away. It is magical, it slows up the time for your…
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Cloudy ocean
Sometimes a photograph becomes so abstract that it is no longer a representation of reality.
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Anatomy of a monocot leaf
The leaf of a monocot plant is characterized by major leaf veins running parallel.
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Ocean view
Many contemporary landscape photographers try to balance the natural beauty of the land with the imprint of humans in a movement loosely known as “contemporary landscape”.
It is all about the light 