Golden Gate Window
Wandering the dark mid-level tiers of Fort Point in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge I came upon a window without glass. This is the same window I photographed…
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July 25, 2008
Dome
Dome of St Ignatius Church, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this is the dome of the Jesuit St Ignatius Church, adjacent to San Francisco University.…
July 24, 2008
Doing Normal Baby Things
It's great to see Katie Rose doing normal baby things. She's still monitored and in the NICU, still on supplemental oxygen, and still gets most of her calories via a…
July 23, 2008
Jesuit Baroque
Briefly noted: the Jesuit parish St. Ignatius Church was built in 1914 following the destruction of a previous Jesuit church in the great San Francisco earthquake. The docent history of…
July 21, 2008
Ghosts of Mare Island
Ghosts, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mare Island, a peninsula across the Napa River from Vallejo, California, was the site of the first naval shipyard on the…
July 21, 2008
Without Training Wheels
Without Training Wheels, photo by Harold Davis. Katie is now without tubes, not all the time, but sometimes when she is feeding, and for hours at a stretch. Partly, she's…
July 20, 2008
My Brilliant Butterfly
My Brilliant Butterfly, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this Photoshop composite combines a flatbed scan with a number of camera captures on a lightbox. In…
July 17, 2008
Book Review: Understanding Shutter Speed
When I first looked at Understanding Shutter Speed by Bryan Peterson on Amazon I wondered how shutter speed, only one of the components of an exposure, made up a book.…
July 16, 2008
Feeding Katie Rose
Katie and Bottle, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose is sneaking up on five pounds. She is doing so well. A couple of days ago, on her first try, she…
July 15, 2008
Gaillardia in Flight
Gaillardia in Flight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Gaillardia in flight...afternoon delight. Well, I did take the images in this composite in the afternoon, and Gaillardia is…
July 15, 2008
Software Review: Fluid Mask 3
When you use Photoshop, nothing is more important than the ability to make selections. As a simple example, when you want to make a composite by moving a person from…
July 14, 2008
Vanishing Point
Like World without End, my image of endless doors, I shot the base photo for this image at Fort Point in San Francisco. In the shadow of the Golden Gate…
July 13, 2008
Mathew’s Fourth Birthday
Mathew at Step One, photo by Harold Davis. Yesterday was Mathew's fourth birthday. Despite the stress of Katie Rose's birth, not to mention our commutes back and forth to the…
July 11, 2008
Après Moo
Après Moo, photo by Harold Davis. When we visited Katie Rose in the NICU today she was about to be fed using the gavage tube directly to her stomach. Phyllis…
July 10, 2008
On My Way to Visit Katie Rose
Tuesday evening I gave a presentation to the Marin Photo Club about night photography, then drove into San Francisco to visit Katie Rose in the hospital. My drive took me…
July 10, 2008
Book Review: Welcome to Oz
Vincent Versace's Welcome To Oz is quite possibly the most innovative and best digital photography title I've ever come across (excluding my own books, of course!). Versace is a superb…
July 9, 2008
Zeiss 100mm f/2 Macro Lens
Gaillardia, Papaver, and Iris, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I bought a Zeiss Macro 100mm f/2 ZF Makro-Planar T* Manual Focus Lens to use with…
July 8, 2008
Katie in a Basinette
Katie's Family, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose is out of her isolette and into a basinette. This is a very big step for Katie, and one that is appropriate…
July 6, 2008