There was a bright moon in the sky, and as I walked across the mud flats behind the Inverness General Store, my fear was that all that moonlight would detract from the starlight. As I set up my tripod, polka music came faintly from the Czech restaurant in Inverness. Vladimir's, it seems is still run by 78-year-old Vlad, and according...

The time has come, the walrus famously said, to talk of many things (thanks, Lewis Carroll). Rather than shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, and kings, I tend to talk about digital photography. When I came back to photography, I had no idea that the techniques and aesthetics of this wonderful new medium would take over my life. I used a...

O'Reilly Evangelist Derrick Story brings his popular teaching style to a webcast, where you'll learn five great ways to make your photos stand out.

The feedback starts flying, from Orlando, Tasmania, and virtual points in between, as Adobe invites users to download the public beta of Lightroom 2.0.

I photographed this interesting mixed Lily bouquet on black velvet, with natural daylight and a tungsten spot. As always in these situations, it pays to "under expose" the photo for a proper "creative" exposure---so the flowers become more saturated and the black background goes truly black. Creative exposures are explained in Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers, pages 118-121. Asiatic...

Rick Smolan gave me a coupon for a version of his book America at Home with a custom cover, and I put Julian and Nicky in the design (see below). Rick is famous for his Day in the Life series of photography books. Like many of Rick's projects, America at Home is extraordinarily creative in concept. Essentially, the notion of...

Scott Kelby, NAPP President, was touring the expo floor at Photoshop World Thursday in his new ride. We're not referring to just any run-about vehicle. Kelby's ride had 8-spoke mag-alloy wheels, metallic flake paint job waxed to high gloss, and running lights for that distinctive, "I am here" look without the precocious overstatement we often see these days. So why...

Adobe selected the spotlight of Photoshop World in Orlando to introduce the beta version of Photoshop Lightroom 2.0. Tom Hogarty showed off some of its alluring features, including the new dodge and burn tool. You can see for yourself in this video from the keynote.

Finley Eversole contacted me for permission to use one of my chambered nautilus images in his book Art, Death and Transformation, to be published by Inner Traditions in 2009. Based on my conversation with Finley, he's a man with personal experience of the abstract expressionists. I gather that his book is about the relationalship of the spiritual to art,...

The fishing trawler Point Reyes is forever aground on a Tomales Bay mud bank behind the Inverness, California general store. Along with the Point Reyes Lighthouse, this wrecked ship is a cannonical photostop on the Point Reyes tour, just as McWay Creek Falls attracts photographers visiting Big Sur. In the same way, Tunnel View in Yosemite is nearly always crowded...