Irrigation
Irrigation 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Having spent a great deal of time observing water drops up close and personal, I am firmly convinced that water…
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June 4, 2006
White Mallow
White Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I was caught up in photographing the spiral deep inside a pink mallow. Then I looked up and noticed this…
June 3, 2006
Spiral in a Mallow
Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a photograph at fairly high magnification (about 8:1) of an annual Mallow flower, Lavatera trimestris. I photographed it today…
June 2, 2006
Even the Miwok Names Are Forgotten
Yan-o-pah, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Every view in Yosemite Valley has probably been photographed, and most views more than once. The famous vistas have been photographed…
May 31, 2006
Sock Nectar
Butterflies on a Sock above Vernal Falls, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. After climbing the Mist Trail, we were thoroughly soaked. The great rock platform on top…
May 31, 2006
Rainbow on the Mist Trail
Rainbow on the Mist Trail, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Part of the fun of climbing the stairs of the Mist Trail to the top of Vernal…
May 31, 2006
Raise High the ISO, Digital Photographic Craftspeople!
Calochortus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Wild flowers---like the Calochortus above, also sometimes called a Mariposa Lily---grow along Hite's Cove Trail above the South Fork of the…
May 31, 2006
Snow Plant
Snow Plant, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The snow plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, is really pretty amazing. Coming up out of snow or forest undergrowth, it produces no…
May 30, 2006
View from Moro Rock
View from Moro Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It had been raining for our first two days in Sequoia, and Julian was getting "squirelly." Well, I…
May 30, 2006
Be the Bee
Be the Bee, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I have been photographing bees in my garden in the warm sunshine of mid-afternoon. Nikon D200 + 200mm macro…
May 29, 2006
Peony Glowing
Peony Glowing, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. For me, photography is about color and light. The two come together in flowers that are backlit by the sun,…
May 28, 2006
Biggest: Correcting Digital Fisheye Distortion
Biggest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. What do you do as a photographer when confronted with the biggest tree on earth, stretching up so high that it…
May 28, 2006
Yucca Flower
Flowering Yucca, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Driving down the dramatic road from Grant Grove into Kings Canyon, Julian and I descended through a gentle but steady…
May 27, 2006
Drama Queen
Drama Queen, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a Papaver somniferum---yes, the poppy from which opium is made--being beautiful in my garden. This particular variety of…
May 27, 2006
Luminous Lily
Luminous Day Lily, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Luminous---emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light. Surely this day lily from my side yard is luminous.…
May 19, 2006
Garden Sculpture
Garden Sculpture, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Some people have bird baths, plastic gnomes, wishing wells, or pink flamingos in their garden. We have this remains of…
May 17, 2006
Wing
Wing, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Looking at this apparent celestial meteor through my macro rig, I wasn't sure what had fallen to earth. Actually, it is…
May 17, 2006
Worlds without End
Worlds without End, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Everytime I point my lens at water drops on a spider web, I think of worlds within worlds and…
May 15, 2006