This mardi gras is much more staid and traditional than the craziness of New Orleans. The costumes are more elaborate and refined and there seems to be more emphasis on small groupings with a theme idea posing for tourists. These groups move around the city and stopping and striking poses and holding them for 15 […]
Several years back I gave myself the project of shooting the four Greek elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. The final form of the project resulted in four separate books bound in Italy and now featured at www.FairweatherEditions.com . This video of the photographs in the book, “Water” will give some idea of the series. In […]
From the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci: “OF SELECTING THE LIGHT WHICH GIVES MOST GRACE TO FACES. If you should have a courtyard that you can at pleasure cover with a linen awning, that light will be good. Or, when you want to take a portrait, do it in dull weather, or as evening falls, making […]
My mother told me that when I was a toddler and she had to leave me alone for a few minutes, she would give me a bag of clothespins to play with. She knew that would keep me busy for hours. In my imagination they were people, soldiers, armies and clipped together they became airplanes and […]
The moonflower is one of the most important flowers that bloom at night. Yet there is no moonflower in the collection. Why? I simply could not get a good shot last summer. What with the wind and their tendency to intertwine I could not isolate a single flower that would pose for me and sit […]
A friend asked me recently for a recommendation for a really sharp lens for his camera. Since, in my opinion, most of today’s lenses are quite sharp, (unless you are hypercritical and have deep pockets), I suggested that he get a tripod instead. He laughed and thought I was kidding. There is nothing more agonizing […]
Introducing “The Midnight Garden” a photographic collection of flowers that bloom when the sun sets and the cooler night air allows the delicate flowers to blossom and send out their aromas out to the potential pollinators. The photographs are printed in the ancient and archival platinum process. The wide gray scale of platinum allows for exquisite detail in the […]
