Glory
Glory, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Crawling out of my sleeping bag to the sounds of a massive rock slide (here's the story), I found the Yosemite…
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October 18, 2008
Prize Specimen
Prize Specimen, photo by Harold Davis. This week Katie Rose went to see her pediatrician, Dr. Cuthbertson. Katie Rose weighed in at almost eleven pounds. She's shown here being held…
October 10, 2008
Door Knob
Door Knob, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I gave Julian a lesson in macro photography, and for practice I showed him how to photograph this…
September 21, 2008
Chins
Chins, photo by Harold Davis. At the pediatrician yesterday, Katie Rose weighed in at nine pounds and seven ounces. This is up a pound since her last visit two weeks…
September 18, 2008
Spin
Spin, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. This is a photo of one of the Ferris Wheels on the Santa Cruz boardwalk (the spinning Ferris Wheel is also…
September 11, 2008
Replacement Child
Replacement Child, book cover design using a photo by Harold Davis. This is the cover of The Replacement Child, a mystery by Christine Barber. The book is to be published…
September 9, 2008
Hands
Hands, photo by Harold Davis. Dr. Michael Katz, who delivered Katie Rose, suggests that the "whole story" is in the size of Phyllis's hands. If you compare the photo taken…
September 5, 2008
Big Wheel Keep on Turning
Big Wheel Keep on Turning, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo shows two of the ferris wheels on the Santa Cruz boardwalk. One wheel is still…
August 29, 2008
Leap of Faith
Leap of Faith, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Katie Rose can't dance (yet). But she sure does wiggle and squirm. So I shot these five…
August 29, 2008
Nicky with Face Painting
Nicky with Face Painting, photo by Harold Davis. Nicky came home from camp at Berkeley Montessori with this cute face painting of a mouse, and I couldn't resist photographing his…
August 22, 2008
Stephanorrhina gaffata
Towards the end of 2007 I was working on a special project that involved photographing, scanning, and Photoshopping flowers and insects using a variety of techniques. This beetle ended up…
August 7, 2008
Magic of the Mundane
Katie's Bottle, photo by Harold Davis. This is a photo of one of the small, plastic bottles used to feed Katie Rose her fortified breast milk. It's amazing how photography…
July 30, 2008
Spiral into Sunflower
Spiral into Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: There are spirals in nature and grand artist-created spirals like Robert Smithson's massive spiral jetty. There are…
July 28, 2008
Multitasking
Multitasking, photo by Harold Davis. Mathew, who just turned four, gets so engrossed in his computer that he needs to multitask. Which in his case means dragging his small wooden…
July 26, 2008
Golden Gate Window
Wandering the dark mid-level tiers of Fort Point in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge I came upon a window without glass. This is the same window I photographed…
July 25, 2008
Jesuit Baroque
Briefly noted: the Jesuit parish St. Ignatius Church was built in 1914 following the destruction of a previous Jesuit church in the great San Francisco earthquake. The docent history of…
July 21, 2008
My Brilliant Butterfly
My Brilliant Butterfly, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this Photoshop composite combines a flatbed scan with a number of camera captures on a lightbox. In…
July 17, 2008
Vanishing Point
Like World without End, my image of endless doors, I shot the base photo for this image at Fort Point in San Francisco. In the shadow of the Golden Gate…
July 13, 2008