Why do I show my work on Flickr? There are a number of reasons, but they boil down to 1,496,603. Let me explain my affair with Flickr. When I started…
Tidepool Creature, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a close-up of a tidepool creature, taken the other day in James V Fitzgerald Marine Preserve near Moss…
Resistance to Spirals Is Futile, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There's something hypnotizing about spirals. Even when I start with a perfectly good "straight" photo of a…
I'm really excited to have three photography books coming out in the next few months. These are very different books. The commonality is that each of the three books is…
Stairs, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Monday was a school vacation in honor of the great Martin Luther King. The weather was dark and stormy. I took…
Book Imposition, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo shows imposition proofs for my Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers. The book is due out in the…
Capillarity in Green, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a greener version of Capillarity, shown in an earlier post on black and on white.
OK. I'm going to give the punch line away. I love my new Nikon D300. I love this camera with a passion that rivals that of my feelings for some…
Existential Escalators, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. When I was young, they warned me about the escalators. "Once you step on the escalators," I was told, "you…
Recently I needed to photograph flowers with a very specific look for an ongoing project for a client. These were controlled, studio images. While it may seem unusual to photograph…
Pine Branch, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Phyllis cut this branch from a western cedar tree in the median strip of a major street. I photographed the…
Glass Ceiling, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I did a tour of the floor at MacWorld, and then with some time to spend before my panel at…
Trillium, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this tiny and wonderful wild Trillium in Steep Ravine last spring, and Phyllis just recently masked it onto black.…
Paper White on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We used the same black velvet background as I'd used with the sunflower. We used a pin to…
Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this sunflower as part of an ongoing project for a client. To achieve the simple look of this image,…
Seating, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is another photo of seating at Memorial Stadium, scaled so that at first glance you might be seeing a Venetian…
View this photo larger. Read the back story featuring this image. When a photo is about pattern, the thrill of composition can come from a dissonance in size. Is the…
Stadium, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of the seating at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium, notorious as the home of the California Golden Bears…