Are you intrigued by transparent flower photos? Ever wanted to know how to make them? Well, here's your chance! With photography on a light box, once you photograph a bracketed…
Have you ever wanted to turn your photos into fine art design pieces? With a little bit of Photoshop know-how, a few inexpensive tools, and the techniques explained in this…
Have you ever over-sharpened an image? (We all have!) Have you ever wanted to to sharpen just one thing in a photo, not the entire image? If you answer "Yes!" to…
Photographing with a group at Kirby Cove waiting for the full moon to rise behind the Golden Gate Bridge, it seemed to me that I live in one of the…
Gardens in Japan are almost never just about nature. The key point in a Japanese garden is how the natural elements interact with structural and human elements. The style of…
I wanted to post current information about our portfolios: Botanique, Monochromatic Visions and Following the Kumano kodo. I am very excited that both Botanique and Monochromatic Visions were featured in Fine Art…
Rain in California this spring has been sorely needed. It has fallen intermittently and blessedly heavy at times---but never enough to stop the drought or replenish the reservoirs. After one…
Photography is the art and craft of capturing light, whether via silver halide chemistry on film, or via silicon on a sensor array. "Capturing light" is probably the key part…
I've been looking through my archives from last year in Paris---and finding many images that I want to process! Looking back at the crop from the spring of last year…
These variegated iris are clearly friends. They look at each other with empathy, tendrils even apparently touching---or at least waving to each other!
I was struck by the regularity in this apartment building. Nobody had planters out, no bikes were stored, and old shoes weren't resting in the window embrasures. This kind of…
One of my favorite characters in fantasy literature, J.R.R. Tolkein's Smeagol, would have appreciated the nice, plump and juicy slab of fish I brought back from the store. The fish…
Contrary to common cliché, the colors of nature are not always beautiful. But in the case of flowers, colors are almost always beautiful to human eyes. True, flowers need to…
I'm really pleased with my new page as a sponsored photographer on the Zeiss Camera Lens Ambassador site. Check it out: http://www.zeiss.com/camera-lenses/en_us/ambassadors/harold_davis.html. Related link: Otus & me (an informal review).
Using the same lens (my Zeiss 35mm) and the same camera-in-motion technique as In a Paris Park creates a moody and atmospheric image in monochrome of the banks of the…
Sunday in the Park with George. "George" in this case was my Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 lens. The park is Square Jean XXIII, just behind Notre Dame in Paris, on a…
I photographed these tulips on a light box using my normal shooting sequence, but when the time came to process them I did things somewhat differently. The normal workflow is…