embryonic snail inside egg   100X transmitted light    ASA 100    1 sec

These three photos were the first photos that I ever had digitized and the first photos I ever had in a gallery show. I was learning to do photomicrographs with the aid of people at the San Francisco Microscopy Society and John Ewert of Ewert’s Photos (business closed about 1998). Ewert’s Photo was having a gallery show of micrographs in the store and I was invited to participate. I didn’t yet have prints of my slides and Ewert’s had just gotten in their first slide scanner so we digitized the slides, captioned them and made prints for the show.

With a nice DSLR camera to use, I’ve been slow to embrace my iPhone as a camera. But my children have all happily moved to their iPhones as their primary camera (two of the three have given up their DSLRs entirely), iStockphoto is now accepting camera photos, and I got a new iPhone 5 so I decided it was time to get competent with my iPhone camera. One of the fun features of the iPhone is the ability to add filters quickly. There are a lot of apps for filters but I didn’t want to overwhelm myself so I chose Instagram and Snapseed for starters. This 1941 Chevrolet Deluxe Sedan was photographed with my iPhone  5 and processed with Snapseed.

Just returned from Click! The California Photo Festival which I also attended last year. One class that I took used a technique of blending multiple photos where each individual photo illuminated a different part of a still life with a flashlight. You can use as much or as little of the illuminated portion of each individual photo as you like. This image is composed from six different individual photos.

I attended FanimeCon again this year over Memorial Day weekend (May 31st for my out of country friends). As usual, the costuming was amazing. You can see my favorite photos in the gallery at right under FanimeCon 2012 favorites. I have more images at iStockphoto under Cosplay Portraits.

This boy was hanging around a temple in Jaipur, India. When I started photographing, he insisted that I take his photo. Like many people in India, he was just happy to be able to say he had his photo taken even if he could only see it on the back of the camera as I had no way to give him a copy.