The Beauty of Fall
Ok - so I'm giving up on trying to organize posts by subject - and will just do it by season at least for a while. There are lots of posts with just a few photos lined up - and at the rate I'm going - I may never get enough photos for an entire post dedicated to a...
Ivory Flame – Inspired by Berthe Morisot
This is one of a series of photographs inspired by the Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot. When I saw an exhibit of her work a few years ago, I was struck by how she portrayed quite behind the scenes moments in women’s lives – as they cared for their...
Anoush Anou
Photographs from a remote session with Anoush Anou in late 2020. One of the good things to come out of the pandemic is the ability to work with models at a distance - Anoush was in her home in Ohio, and I was in my basement in Maryland - when these photographs were...
Gardening Essentials
This is one of a series of still life photographs I created with a bunch of flowers from a local flower farm and some vintage gardening tools. In this photo, a gardener has everything she needs to continue to grow beautiful flowers in her garden - her gardening...
Photos from The Studio
Ok - so I'm giving up on trying to organize posts subject. These days, I'm just grouping by season or subject or location. So - here are some of the photos I've taken in my studio Still lifes taken at a workshop with Marie...
Ivory Flame
This is one of a series of photographs inspired by the Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot. When I saw an exhibit of her work a few years ago, I was struck by how she portrayed quite behind the scenes moments in women's lives - as they cared for their...
The Beauty of Fall
Ok - so I'm giving up on trying to organize posts by subject - and will just do it by season at least for a while. There are lots of posts with just a few photos lined up - and at the rate I'm going - I may never get enough photos for an entire post dedicated to a...
Zinnia
This is another photograph in my series of flowers photographed as portraits with custom backgrounds designed to highlight what I see as the personality of the flowers. For this zinnia, I wanted to emphasize the soft pinks in the petals and feeling of a...
Even More Spring Wildflowers
Ok - so I'm giving up on trying to organize posts by type of flower - and will just do it by season at least for a while. There are lots of posts with just a few photos lined up - and at the rate I'm going - I may never get enough photos for an entire post dedicated...
Ivory Flame with Fan
In February 2020, I attended a workshop created by Marie Otero with figure model Ivory Flame. This image of Ivory Flame with a Fan of Feathers is just one of several incredible images I took at the workshop.
Ivory Flame
I've been very fortunate to work with Ivory Flame - a wonderful figure model - a couple of times. Here are some of my favorite photos from our sessions. As always - photographs created with models are always a collaboration of artists. So Thank You Ivory Flame for all...
The Butterfly Collector
I created this still life with other participants at a workshop with Karen Burns and Marie Otero. We started out with the sewing tools - added what looked like a handmade stuffed rabbit carrying a butterfly net. And then we added the butterflies, and some flowers....