How I Photographed a “The Femme Fatale”

How I Photographed a “The Femme Fatale”

It’s Groundhog Day! And it’s also #monochromemonday. so instead of another infrared blog post (I did that yesterday) or something featuring a black and white landscape image or what passes for the kind of landscapes I make, I’m going back to a...
Looking at Infrared Portrait Possibilities

Looking at Infrared Portrait Possibilities

Today’s Sunday Available Light Portraiture post is about infrared portraiture, a genre not typically discussed or explored. To be fair, one of the earliest uses of digital infrared portraits were made by wedding photographers but from what I can tell, this is not...
Joe’s Book Club: Mystery Books for 2026

Joe’s Book Club: Mystery Books for 2026

Today’s post by Joe Farace “The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them”—Mark Twain My book-reading year is off to a good start. If you read my last book club post, you’ll know I read 79 books in 2025....
Creating Old Hollywood-Style Glamour Portraits

Creating Old Hollywood-Style Glamour Portraits

It’s #filmfriday and in today’s post that word “film” means the movies. As I mentioned last week, like many photographers I get inspiration for my images from many sources. One of my photographer/friends, for example, finds it in old master’s...
Shooting Portraits at Sonoma Raceway

Shooting Portraits at Sonoma Raceway

It’s #wheelswednesday and in Part 3 of my Car Portraits series, I’m shifting today’s normal focus from the cars to the people who, in this case, appear to drive them. Today’s portrait is one that I made of a model—the footwear is a giveaway—at...