Tag: landscapes
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Monday Monochrome: “Storm on the High Desert”
Black and White processing lends itself to dark scenes, stormy scenes. The black and white coloring enhances the air of mystery, of foreboding. This is evident in this image of California’s Mohave Desert in a rainstorm. The high desert is usually sunny and dry, but inviting nevertheless. But when a storm rolls across the desert,…
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Monday Monochrome: Mojave Desert
Here is this week’s Monday Monochrome (featured, above), a black and white image of the Mohave Desert in southern California. This image was also included in the new book, Light and Shadow. The Mojave Desert, occupying more than 25,000 square miles, is an arid desert in southern California and portions of Arizona, Utah, and Nevada.…
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Lens Artists Challenge #412 – Places Shaped by Water
This week’s challenge is by John Steiner (Journeys with Johnbo): Places Shaped by Water. John has some terrific pictures for this challenge and I urge you to check them out. The title of John’s challenge is self-explanatory, places near or with water (ocean, lake, inlet, river, pond, etc) that create the distinctive character of the…
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Light and Shadow: The New Book is Here
A thirty-year retrospective collection of beautiful black and white fine art photography: landscapes, nature, and florals. More than 120 pages of monochrome images, all newly processed for this volume, all revealing the fascinating interplay between Light and Shadow. Available hardbound with dust jacket or as an instant PDF version viewable on any device. Light and…
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Lens Artists Challenge #409: Best Ever
I have been quite busy recently, explaining my absence from blog posting. Among other things, I’ve been working on a new book – nearing completion – Light and Shadow, featuring well over 100 black and white images from the last 30 years of my photography. Virtually every photograph has been reprocessed for publication. More on…
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New Images #7 – Mixed Edits
The feature image above, titled “Wave,” can be seen in a couple of ways. Its smoothly undulating shape is meant to emulate a somewhat perturbed flowing wave – water, air, clouds, or similar mediums. At the same time, the combination of lighting, color, and flow patterns is meant to draw the viewer into the upper…
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Lens-Artists Challenge #373: Looking Back at LAC #31: Landscapes
This week’s Lens Artists Challenger is from Egidio, who designatedf this week as Lens-Artists Challenge #373: Looking Back at LAC #31: Landscapes. It’s a great challenge but it presents some difficulties for me because I’ve already posted so many landscapes. I;m addicted to landscapes which all possess a mystical property for me. Just to be…
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Monday Monochrome – Sachuest Point Tree
This tree was photographed on the ocean-side coast of the Sachuset Point, site of Sachuset National Wildlife Refuge, near Annapolis, RI. The first people to occupy Sachuest Point were the ancestors of the Narragansett and Wampanoag Tribes more than 10,000 years ago. Colonizers from the mid 1600’s-1939 used Sachuest Point primarily for dairy farming and sheep grazing.
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One Four Challenge Week 5 – Acoma
This is Week 5 of the current One Four series. July has an extra week, so I’ve taken this opportunity to do some touch-ups to the last image. Recall that in the One Four Challenge we select a photograph and then produce four (or five) edits or interpretations. Edits can be relatively limited or can…
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Big Sur Wildflowers
A bonus floral this week… California Poppies along the Big Sur coast. The California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is native to California and Mexico but is also grown worldwide for decoration. It belongs to the family Eschscholzioideae, which is related to Papaveroideae (including the opium poppy). The California Poppy has also been found in Australia and…