A Modern Pilgrimage: Along the Kumano Kodo by Harold Davis is an artist book and portfolio of images that astutely blends old-craft hand traditions and materials with and cutting-edge new…
Katie Rose loves to draw and paint, and make things like the mask shown in the photo. If you ask her, she'll tell you she wants to be an artist…
Poet William Blake wrote about building a Hell in Heaven's despite, and the cognitive dissonance of traveling in Japan often put me in mind of this poem of Blake's (which also…
Much of the time we photographers are concerned with sharpness---how to make a photo that is "tack sharp," how to manage depth-of-field (or even how to focus stack), how to…
The long overdue official renaming of Mount McKinley to Denali, Alaska, and the resulting outcry from the State of Ohio (the birthplace of President McKinley), puts me in mind of my…
This is a combination of two hand-held shots. The carousel in the foreground was photographed at 3 seconds and f/22 at ISO 64. The three second exposure produced the filigree effect.…
The modernism of the underpinnings of this bridge over the Seine River in Paris, France belies the ornate fancifulness of the bridge from above. This is one of the joys of…
Special Print Offer: Kiss from a Rose by Harold Davis on Moab Juniper Baryta I am offering a limited-time print special: my Kiss from a Rose, shown below, printed at roughly 11"…
The underlying photography in this image consists of two photographs of trees reflected in a puddle that I made in the Parc de Sceaux in suburban Paris, France with the…
Sunflowers and Friends is a light box bracketed high-key sequence combined in Photoshop. The sunflowers, echinacea, and other flowers are from our garden, and shown in In the field for transparency…
My friend and mentor Lilo Raymond died a few years ago. Lilo was a wonderful photographer with a wonderful eye, who fled from the Nazis as a youth and ended…
Words have a place as a companion to photography, as titles, in captions, in statements, and in books that combine words and imagery. It's often a useful exercise to attempt…
The other day we celebrated my Mom's 86th birthday. My Mom, Virginia Davis, is a working artist, deeply interested in the textiles and art of Mexico. So it seems appropriate that…
One interesting point that often comes up in my Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshops (such as the recent one I gave at Maine Media) is whether the techniques I teach…
I am leading a small group of photographers to Italy for two full weeks at the end of October (15 days and 14 nights beginning October 28, 2015). We will…
I am always amused, flattered, and slightly aghast when one of my photos turns up as a Georgia O'Keeffe painting. This happens most often with Kiss from a Rose (shown below).…
I sent Steven Pressfield, the author of The War of Art, a copy of my new book Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer: A Photographer's Creative Companion and Workbook. Steve…