Danielle Wohl, an art consultant based in Palo Alto, California, has curated a different version of my work on her website. These are not the translucent florals on washi or high-tonal-range black & white prints I am used to collectors choosing. Danielle has selected imagery that verges on the abstract and depicts things like architectural details in Japan, a pattern on an old garden fence, and a stack of old dishes. Check out the Harold Davis page on the Danielle Wohl Art Advisory website.

Here are a couple of the images Danielle selected and the stories behind them:

With Apartment Stairs in Shin-Imamiya, I was traveling via a series of local trains in central Japan on my way between the monastery guesthouse in Mt Koyo and hiking the Kumano kodo. I changed trains at the Shin-Imamiya Station on the outskirts of Osaka, and there was a wait of an hour or so before my connecting train arrived. I decided to explore a little. You can’t tell from this shot of the patterned apartment stairs, but the area is surprisingly funky, with homeless people on the street right in front of the train station—not the neat and tidy Japan that tourists are supposed to see.

We had wrapped shooting my Craftsy Photographing Flowers course in Denver, and the crew and I were out for a celebratory lunch. I spotted this stack of plates in the restaurant, and shot and processed it on my iPhone on the spot! I suppose that I have “hungry eyes”—and that looking at interesting things is as necessary to me as food or drink.