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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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ICM photography at North Table Mountain
I go to Table Mountain every spring for the wildflowers. This year it was beyond crowded, and since I had photographed the place ad nauseam in the past, I packed light (just my toy camera, the Z50 and its 50 mm dedicated lens). My intention was to enjoy the walk and friends…
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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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Casual ICM photography
ICM photography on a gorgeous morning
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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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A study in ICM photography
Intentional camera movement (ICM) is a photographic technique where you move the camera when you are pressing the shutter.
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Monterey Dreaming
Monterey county in California is a beautiful wild place for photography but the wind, topology of landscape and haze make it difficult to get a good shot.
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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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