Please join Harold Davis for three days of inspirational photography at Green Gulch Farm. This workshop runs from 5PM Friday August 3, 2012 through 10AM Monday August 6, 2012, and includes…
I’m often asked in workshops I lead where I get my inspiration and ideas for photography. I like to respond that “inspiration is not a tame lion.” This is a…
Phyllis and I were lucky earlier this week to spend a few hours at Green Gulch Farm. Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, also known as Green Dragon Temple (Soryu-ji), is a…
From my viewpoint on the edge of the eastern Sierra the distant mountains were invisible---hidden in a dense swirl of fog and cloud. I waited a while. For an instant…
I arrived early for a workshop I was leading in Bear Valley, the park headquarters for Point Reyes National Seashore. As soon as I parked my car I noticed a…
According to a recent New York Times article, scientific studies have shown that expressing gratitude can improve one's health and lead to less anxiety and depression. Also, as the article puts…
For a limited time only we are making available an archival pigment print of my dramatic monochromatic image of Yosemite (shown below) at a very special price. You can learn…
Ladyboot Arch, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an image of Ladyboot Arch, named for perhaps obvious reasons, shot in the Alabama Hills on the last…
Arc of the Blue Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On the day before the Star Circle Academy workshop began I shot with some friends and early…
This wheel of the thresher shown in Separating the Wheat from the Chaff called out to me because of the tonal contrast between its inner workings and outer structure. I…
On a balmy autumn night in early November I treated myself to a good dinner at the Yosemite Lodge restaurant. Then I headed out into the Yosemite Valley night with…
This is an image of a thresher, a machine used in farming. A threshing machine separates grains from stalks and husks, or---as the saying goes---separates the wheat from the chaff.…
To make this image, first I needed one wet spider web with a colorful background. The web I found is shown in a somewhat more conventional image in Wet Web.…
This is a sequence of four capures made looking east from the Alabama Hills towards the Panamint Range and Death Valley, combined into a single HDR shot. Exposure data: 17mm,…
About fifty miles down the desolate Saline Valley road, one valley to the west of Death Valley, as the sun set, I stopped to camp for the night. I set…
At the end of a remote valley in the northwest corner of Death Valley you'll find the Eureka Dunes. At close to 700 feet tall, these are probably the tallest…
View this image larger. This is a two minute exposure by bright moonlight diffused through a layer of clouds taken at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, California. For this image…
Looking straight down at the rock formation at Edward Weston Beach in the Point Lobos State Reserve, near Carmel, CA, I was struck how the rock formation looked like a…