Go to the Show (in Lancaster, California)

Doing anything between this Saturday and December 29th? If not, head out to Lancaster, California, and see the Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees exhibit at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH). It’s part of a Getty-funded initiative that…

Find Something Wonderful

A local church, off Highway One in Half Moon Bay, is known for its yearly book sale. I try to go whenever I can and I’ve found many cool things over the years, even when I arrived late. During the…

Book Review: Photography Is a Generous Medium

Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel CoenPhotographs by Lee Friedlander, edited by Joel CohenPublished by Fraenkel Gallery, 72 pages, published in 2023Purchase via the Fraenkel Gallery page (preferred) or via Amazon I think it was in the book Friedlander First Fifty…

What do Infrared Photographs in HDR Look Like?

Some photographs look more or less the same in HDR with perhaps a few specular highlights growing lighter, the photograph looking maybe a tad more lifelike than before. Infrared photographs, however, seem born for HDR. The white of the photographs,…

The Top 10 Posts

A little over four years ago I started this blog with no better plan other than I wanted to do a “Covid Project,” and I began by writing a post where I begged for a bigger camera: I want a…

Book Review: A Maker In the Desert

scott b. davis: sonora by scott b. davis132 pages and 93 images, Published by Radius Books in 2021 Book information and purchase page at Radius Books or see the Amazon listing There is a useful exercise, when learning photography, where…

Owlscapes, Revisted

[This page is graphics intensive and may take a few seconds to load.] I’ve been exploring my own images, looking again at work I thought was finished, converting works to HDR to try to better understand this new technology and…

SDR and HDR Comparison Video

Did I mention I couldn’t sleep? Understanding HDR still images, though it seems easy, is hard. We’ve spent many years looking at SDR images, agonizing over SDR images. We pondered the colors, the sharpness, all manner of subtleties, but we…

Photography’s New Thing

I can’t sleep at night, I have trouble concentrating during the day. It’s on my mind, the voice in my head (or, more accurately, the voices, though they all sound like me) can’t stop going on and on about it.…