Category: Botanicals
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A rare flower of the Atlantic Forest
During a hike in Petrópolis, RJ, Brazil, I photographed the flower of a rare orchid, Worsleya rayneri.
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Four treatments of one photo in Adobe Photoshop
This is a short tutorial showing four possible treatments of a photograph, using Photoshop and layers.
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Leave no trace
My Lee Polarizer filter fell in Taylor Creek last time I was out there. Lake Tahoe was very dry.
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Folhas Secas, part four
This is the fourth post about my project “Folhas Secas”. I talk about test printing my photos as a means to help me choose my “best work” to post on my online portfolio.
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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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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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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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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.
It is all about the light 