Straight Shot
Straight Shot, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This decorative central shaft presents a straight shot up to a skylight in the Edificio Cuervo Rubio---a stunning art deco…
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December 15, 2009
Curves
Curves, photo by Harold Davis.View this image larger. Here's another, somewhat softer version of my variegated rose.
December 14, 2009
Puente Bacunayagua
Puente Bacunayagua, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On the highway between the tourist beach enclaves of Veradero and the gritty provincial capital of Matanzas to the east,…
December 12, 2009
Stair Knot
Stair Knot, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I should think it would be puzzling to be caught on this staircase---a giant knot apparently suspended in space with…
December 10, 2009
Study of a Twisted Stair
Study of a Twisted Stair, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. If the perspective in this Photoshop Darkroom creation seems twisted, well, it should. Here's the original twisted…
December 9, 2009
Coastal Range Snow
Coastal Range Snow, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It rained most of the night, and towards morning got cold enough to snow at the crest of the…
December 7, 2009
Structure of Rose
Structure of Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As flowers go, roses tend to present interesting three-dimensional curvilinear spaces. Looking head-on at a rose is different in…
December 7, 2009
Hemingway and Cuba
This cougar head occupies a place of honor in Papa Hemingway’s dressing area at the Hemingway Museum in the suburbs of Havana, Cuba. Photo by Harold Davis. View this image…
December 5, 2009
Point Bonita by Moonlight
Point Bonita by Moonlight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. By the strong light of a waxing gibbous moon I photographed the outer Marin Headlands coast, looking south…
December 4, 2009
Butterfly Prize
Wings of Man, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My image Wings of Man (above) has won second prize in the NABA (North American Butterfly Association) 2009 art…
December 3, 2009
Wave
Ninth Wave, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I went over to the Marin coast on a day with a high surf warning. There was wind, too. I…
December 2, 2009
Cienfeugos Sunset
Cienfeugos Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These two images were captured from the seventh floor balcony of the Hotel Jagua in Cienfeugos, Cuba. Cienfeugos is a…
December 1, 2009
Woman and Fan
Woman and Fan, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In a tourist shop selling hand made lace in Trinidad, Cuba I noticed the owner's apartment behind the store.…
November 30, 2009
Teatro Tomas Terry
Teatro Tomas Terry, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Tomas Terry made his first fortune nursing sick slaves back to health, then selling them. He went on to…
November 29, 2009
Tower Play
Inside the Tower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These two images are of the tower above the Palacio Ferrer in Cienfeugos, Cuba. I shot both the interior…
November 28, 2009
Alter Ego
Alter Ego, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this gourd in Joseph's studio. It seems the inner gourd has the soul and shadow of a dinosaur---aided…
November 27, 2009
Health Care in Cuba
In a sidebar titled Health without Wealth the Lonely Planet travel guide to Havana gushes about the impressive achievements of the Cuban health care system. Not to just pick on…
November 27, 2009
Nicky Is Eight
Nicky is Eight, photo by Harold Davis. We recently had a great time celebrating Nicky's eighth birthday with family and a few of his friends. Nicky is such a great…
November 26, 2009