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...

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...

Redwood trees are one of the most difficult subjects to capture. If you make an image straight on, only a tiny portion is captured. If...

Today, I was a guest presenter at the Foothills Photography Group in Georgia where I talked about my September 2019 trip through the...

I went to Sunnyvale Skate Park today hoping to see some amazing action—skateboarders catching air, speeding up and down concrete...

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...

In a desert that is mostly shades of brown and white, bright colors, especially red, can be quite striking. During my recent trip to...

Artist’s Palette is one of the must-see drives in Death Valley. It winds and dips its way through hills of many-hued volcanic deposits....

One of my favorite sites in Death Valley is the Devil’s Golf Course. According to Wikipedia, it got it name from this quote in the 1934...

One of the most photographed and visited spots in Death Valley is Zabriskie Point. It is almost a right of passage for a photographer to...

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

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...

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