Category Archives: Close Up . There’s a prevalent belief about composition among photographers and other visual artists. In academic circles, the belief is called “the golden section hypothesis” or “the golden section theory”, though most of it’s adherents don’t know the name. Today, I’m going to thoroughly scrutinize the golden section hypothesis, and – as a nonbeliever – I’m...
 [Editorial Note: This is the second part of a series which started here, showing methods of isolating photography subjects.] In the picture of the garlic mushrooms growing on a tanoak leaf, above, I isolated the subject from the background by photographing the subject lit up against a comparatively dark background. In this case, I did...
 . Around ten years ago, I participated in a discussion about whether a particular photography website should welcome digital art. Inevitably, the ensuing discussion turned to definitions of photography, definitions of digital art, and where to draw the lines. I put forward the possible criterion that photographs had to be single recordings of incidents of...
 Winter has come here to coastal California. The skies are often overcast, and frequently rainy. Everything is cool, damp, and muddy. Most animals aren’t yet rutting, and they don’t yet have new babies. Most of the migratory birds have flown away. The colorful Autumn leaves have mostly fallen from the trees. Flowers are few and...
 [Editorial note: This article was originally published on my old website on October 15th, 2009.] If you spend a lot of time outside, and consider what you see, you’ll notice a lot of oddities which are hard to fathom. I enjoy these mysteries of nature, and they’ve been one of the longstanding themes in my...
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