Poltergeist
As much as I love to travel to distant shores, I am a big proponent of the idea that you don't have to travel to make cool images, and sometimes…
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October 11, 2024
Tile Floor © Harold Davis
Unzip My Petal Heart © Harold Davis
Unzip My Petal Heart
First, there was the business of hearts. Hearts are not to be taken lightly. They never are: hearts can be broken, lost, found, and mended. Always pay attention to who…
January 3, 2024
Rubin’s Vase Optical Illusion with Harold’s Profile
Rubin's Vase is a well-known optical illusion developed by Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin whose primary research field was figure-ground perception. When you look at the image above, do you see…
November 16, 2021
Oddities
In common with many photographers, I like to collect visual oddities. Yellow Stanchion, below, is odd because of the prosaic foreground subject contrasted with the almost elegiac background of the…
July 28, 2021
Night Photo Webinar Contribution to Alameda County Community Food Bank
Special thanks to Jeff Sullivan and the attendees of our Night Photography webinar yesterday! Thanks to you, we were able to contribute $972.57 to Alameda County Community Food Bank. According…
April 4, 2021
I Have Minted Two NFTs
I have "minted" two NFTs---non-fungible tokens. To break this down a little further, to mint an asset such as a digital file means to place it on the blockchain. Placing…
March 28, 2021
Visiting a Garden of Cars
A while back, in the pre-pandemic era, I visited the International Car Forest of the Last Church. This so-called "Car Forest" is more like a car garden than a forest.…
August 10, 2020
Black and White Cookies: What’s in a Name?
The Black and White cookie, shown here in an iPhone grab shot converted to black and white in Snapseed, goes by many names. In New York City, where I come…
July 14, 2019
Last Gas
I found this signage advertising the "latest" bar on the Camino Portuguese shortly before the Spanish border where the great pilgrimage trail crosses the River Minho to Tui, Spain. By…
May 9, 2019
Our side door
We generally prefer folks use our front door, where there is a nice sheltered porch for Amazon to leave their near-constant droppings. But of course if you are a friend…
March 31, 2019
French Signage
French signage found in small towns in "deep France" around the Dordogne: Enchanted Mushroom (for a speciality restaurant); Dog on a toilet (for a doggie run); and two pigs for…
April 29, 2017
Vietnamese Viagra
When a guy in Vietnam feels the need for an increase in, shall we say, manliness, potency, and virility, he reaches not for a little blue pill but rather for…
April 10, 2017
Apple
Ever since the era of Adam and Eve, there has been something enticing about an apple!
November 21, 2016
Incredibly Attractive Highly Repellant
Of course, this leads to a grammatical question: Is the implied subject female or fabric? Methinks it could be either, or maybe both.
July 2, 2015
Free Wrecked Blue Couch for House Guests You Hate
Here's an ad I wrote for Craig's List recently about one of the two couches we are trying to get rid of: Too many folks trying to crash at your…
June 1, 2015
Old and New: A Tale of Two Kirk BH-3 Ball Heads
My Kirk BH-3 tripod ball head has served me well on four continents on the trail, in the studio, in mountains, deserts, and along the rugged Pacific host, from the…
April 24, 2015