Midnight Rambles
Midnight Rambles, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took this photo of the view down Tenaya Canyon towards Half Dome shortly before midnight on June 21. I…
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June 23, 2007
Myths, Metaphors, and Digital Photography
If you grant my premise that digital photography is an entirely new medium of expression, then you have to wonder about the prevalence of metaphors that use the techniques of…
June 22, 2007
Golden Gate in Summer
Golden Gate in Summer, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A great bank of fog has covered the Bay area, so it's a little hard to remember that…
June 16, 2007
Beauty in the Belly of the Beast
Silicon Valley from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a thirty second time exposure from the top of Mission Peak. It is looking down…
June 14, 2007
Digital Night Website
It all started when I pointed my digital camera into the void of night and was surprised by the results. In apparent darkness, there's plenty of "light" we cannot see…
June 14, 2007
Bokeh and the Zen of Blur
The term bokeh is used to refer to blurring in a photograph. Good bokeh is smooth and pleasing, whereas bad bokeh produces a jagged and discordant effect. This may sound…
June 13, 2007
Do You Know the Way?
San Jose from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Jack was kind enough to come with me for another night hike up the beast, Mission Peak.…
June 12, 2007
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…
June 11, 2007
Twilight Turns to Night
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…
June 9, 2007
Renegade Remaining Photons
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…
June 8, 2007
Night Shore
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…
June 6, 2007
White California Poppy
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…
June 5, 2007
Will You Be My Lensbaby?
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…
June 5, 2007
Hummingbird Tongue
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…
June 4, 2007
Dream Path
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…
June 4, 2007
Eucalyptus Grove in the Fog
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,…
June 1, 2007
Tennessee Valley by Moonlight
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…
June 1, 2007
Point Reyes Lighthouse
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…
May 31, 2007