Creature of the Night
(or, the Were-Photographer)
Point Reyes from Arch Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. With all the night photography I've been doing lately, I've begun to feel a bit like a…
Point Reyes from Arch Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. With all the night photography I've been doing lately, I've begun to feel a bit like a…
Night Shore 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Looking south from Arch Rock the twilight turned to night. Individual stars turned to the star-filled night sky and…
South from Arch Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I left home after dinner. It took me a bit more than an hour to drive to the…
Night Shore 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 180 second time exposure from Arch Rock in Point Reyes looking northwest up the coast towards…
White California Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I'm used to thinking of the California poppy as a wonderful red-and-orange ragamuffin that grows along our roads almost…
What has a flexible rubberized tube, like a short version of the hose you find on a vacuum cleaner, and a piece of optical glass at the end? Why, my…
Hummingbird Tongue, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The kids were all dropped off at school. It was Monday morning. Phyllis and I were sitting in our kitchen…
Dream Path, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the full night, with fog whistling through the Eucalyptus grove, I exposed for eighty seconds. It seemed to me…
Eucalyptus Grove in the Fog, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We've been living under a cloud cover in the San Francisco Bay area for the last week,…
Tennessee Valley by Moonlight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 210 second exposure of the grasses along Tennessee Valley by moon and star light (with…
Point Reyes Lighthouse, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Here's another version of the Point Reyes Lighthouse after sunset, this one a thirty second exposure that shows the…
When I came back to photography in early 2005, I confronted a world gone digital and virtual. On the whole, I thought this was a good thing, and I was…
Hydrangea Sheila, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of a designer Hydrangea, Hydrangea Sheila, one of the so-called "Dutch Ladies" created by Dutch plantsman…
Tamalpais from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This view looks north from the summit of Mission Peak. Mission Boulevard points in a straight line towards…
Return of the Drama Queen, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a Drama Queen Poppy, Papaver somniferum, that reseeded itself in my garden. I bought the…
Above the Urban Sprawl, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo from the summit of Mission Peak looks north past Hayward up the San Francisco Bay. Depending…
Diablo from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Jack invited me on a hike up Mission Peak, along with his friend Eric. The plan was to…
My five-year-old son Nicky likes to ask me, "When is a door not a door?" Before I can answer, he tells me, "When it's a jar," and cackles wildly. In…