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”.
Tag Archives: Photography
Spring musings
Selective lighting and darkening the background are among my favorite tricks to make a flower picture stand out
The Mermaid’s face
I have been to the Marin Headlands a number of times, but last Saturday was the first time I saw the face of the Mermaid.
Curves
Some flowers have very strange and fascinating shapes, and that certainly includes Angel’s trumpets.
My mood of the ocean
I like the freedom from reality that black and white gives me. In color, there is often the expectation that a scene has some resemblance with reality, and when it does not, it looks strange. In black and white, by contrast, there is no such expectation because there is no real world in black and white to use as a reference.
Branching patterns
Our circulatory system, our lungs, the tops and roots of trees, the rivers flowing to the ocean, and the evolution of life itself can be recovered as a branching pattern.
Beyond Fort Ross
The coast off Fort Ross is beautiful and full with potential for high contrast black and white photography.
Light, Shadow, Reflection
Photograph on display at Gallery 625 in Woodland, as part of the exhibit: Light Shadow, Reflection.
