“Amber at Peek-a-boo” moves us north out of Northern Arizona and into Southern Utah. The Colorado Plateau is filled with many exciting and beautiful things and often hidden from sight are some of nature’s most beautiful creations–the sensuous curves of the slot canyons. These canyons are not easy to find, and most lie in remote […]
The image “A Touch of Class” is from my “Glamour Portfolio.” Glamour is the “air of compelling charm, romance, and excitement…alluring.” In photography, the lighting used to convey this mood was high contrast black and white or color images that hinted at exposure of a beautiful person, but held something back so as to add […]
“Amber at Peek-a-boo” moves us north out of Northern Arizona and into Southern Utah. The Colorado Plateau is filled with many exciting and beautiful things and often hidden from sight are some of nature’s most beautiful creations–the sensuous curves of the slot canyons. These canyons are not easy to find, and most lie in remote […]
The depiction of the archetype of the goddess Aphrodite is beautifully rendered in the famous painting called “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli painted in 1486 and now is on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. I had the pleasure of seeing the real thing in October of this year while traveling […]
“Candlelight” is a good image to discuss several things to consider when designing a photograph. First, the use of a single light source. In a studio setting, using a single light and eliminating daylight gives you a special effect that is often used for high contrast black and white images as well as color. One […]
To feel beautiful is to feel alive. To feel alive means that body and mind are confident, content, healthy. Poet Mary Oliver speaks to this eloquently in her poem called: POEM OF THE ONE WORLD “This morning the beautiful white heron was floating along above the water and then into the sky of this the […]