Nigella Recto and Verso
Nigella Recto, photo by Harold Davis. This is the front and back (recto above, and verso below) of a small flower with an incredibly complex structure, a Negilla. The common…
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June 8, 2009
Katie Rose Swinging
Katie Rose Swinging, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose's core muscle strength has improved to the point that she can enjoy swinging. Today was the first time she was able…
June 7, 2009
Simple Poppy
Simple Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a simple Papaver Rhoeas, photographed with an unvarnished macro lens for depth-of-field. The flower may be simple, and…
June 6, 2009
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I realized that I needed a fast shutter speed to capture this field of grass blowing in a brisk…
June 5, 2009
The Photoshop Darkroom—new Harold Davis book
If you haven't seen much of me lately, and if my blog posts have seemed a bit thin, it's because I've been getting my new book The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative…
June 4, 2009
Surf, Kirby Cove
Surf, Kirby Cove, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a recent overcast evening, with my guest from Finland, on a bluff above Kirby Cove, I waited for…
June 3, 2009
Harold Davis Workshop Updates
It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, it was a San Francisco fogbound night. I was out shooting with a guest from Finland. The fear was that the low…
June 2, 2009
Pagoda of Poppies
Pagoda of Poppies, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I used my 200mm f/4 telephoto macro lens to focus on the more distant poppies while letting…
June 1, 2009
Wheels Within
Wheels Within, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger and even bigger. This is a wire-spoke wheel of a classic Jaguar that I have manipulated into an abstraction in…
June 1, 2009
Variegated Gladiolas
Variegated Gladiolas, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There's a lovely clump of variegated gladolias in the garden. Partly shaded by a climbing rose, water drops cling to…
May 28, 2009
Papaver Drops
Papaver Drops, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the garden, water drops hang from a poppy bud, swinging at the end of its stem. Reflected in the…
May 27, 2009
Expecting the Unexpected
Fiber Optik, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Expecting the Unexpected, the first in my series of articles on Becoming a More Creative Photographer, is now up on…
May 26, 2009
Poppy Core
Poppy Core, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this poppy core handheld in my garden in the late afternoon. I used my 100mm macro lens at…
May 24, 2009
Wheels within Wheels
Wheels within Wheels, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I tend to like to photograph flowers deliberately with my camera on a tripod, stopped down for lots of…
May 23, 2009
Pinhole
Pinhole, photo by Harold Davis. I took this photo of the Golden Gate with the pinhole plate attachment that is part of the Lensbaby Composer Optic Swap System. The effective…
May 23, 2009
Backside
Backside, photo by Harold Davis. Poppy backside transparent in the morning sun: nature's stained glass.
May 21, 2009
Katie’s PDA Has Gone Away
Katie's PDA Has Gone Away, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose turned one last week, and yesterday we brought her into the pediatric cardiology clinic at Children's Hospital, following up…
May 20, 2009