As humans, we have a strong tendency to make meaning from otherwise random arrangements. The term for is is pareodoila. When I...

I have an search plug-in for Photoshop (Excire) that supposedly uses machine learning (AI) to analyze images and figure out what's in...

You've heard of Sweet 16, but probably not sunny 16 unless you are a photographer. Maybe not even then. I've been taken photos for...

The Old Faithful Geyser of Calistoga erupts about every 90 minutes. While waiting, people can hang out in lounge chairs, play bocce ball,...

A couple of days ago I mentioned the difficulty of capturing a scene that was mostly white, and the need to over expose it to trick the...

The word of the day for the 365-Day project is kiss. Glen was kind enough to pucker up. I did some post processing to impart a painterly...

One of the most difficult scenes to photograph accurately is snow. Actually anything that has white on white is difficult: a white dog...

I am still participating in the 365 Day Project for which I submit an image a day to the Photographic Society of America (PSA). PSA...

You would think that living on 15 acres away from town would be a peaceful, quiet experience. But at this time of year, when male turkeys...

Today was unseasonably warm so I headed to Vasona Creek Park to work on my motion studies assignment. I had three objectives: Create a...

There are two approaches to capturing motion in an image. One is to freeze the action, such as the leap of a ballerina, the jump of a...

When Hakone Gardens started in 1915, water wasn't a consideration. But after more than 100 years, climate change, and the current drought...

I spent most of the day writing drafts for upcoming workshops at my local camera club. I volunteered to be "VP of Education." A heady...

As much as I love to travel, doing so sets me back on many of the projects in which I am involved. I worked on a set of photographs...

I sometimes purchase flowers for photography projects. More than two weeks ago I bought a bouquet of yellow flowers and another of...

The Opera San Jose production of Carmen was so wonderful, that I decided to see it a second time. The first time I attended a matinee,...

One of my assignments for The Art of Seeing class, was to create a silhouette image during the day. It is far easier to created a...

When yesterday's temperatures dipped to 36 degrees, I thought it was cold. But this morning it was even colder at 30 degrees. Those of...

Patterns are wonderful subjects for photography, but they are even better if the pattern is in some way broken. One of this week's...

Part of this week's lesson in The Art of Seeing, is to use my camera in fully manual mode. Most people today take photos with a phone or...