Camping on Angel Island
Campsite #4, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I spent a night last week camping on Angel Island. Smack dab in the middle of San Francisco Bay, wild…
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April 25, 2008
Door Knob Dome Scandal
Door Knob Dome Scandal, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Everyone thought it a scandal when the door knob in my basement got together with the dome in…
April 5, 2008
Dome
Dome, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the interior of the dome of San Francisco City Hall. I lay on my back in the central space…
April 5, 2008
Nicky Jumping
Nicky Jumping, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a recent trip to Alcatraz, Nicky started jumping in the exercise yard. I was mindful of Philippe Halsman's famous…
April 3, 2008
America at Home
Rick Smolan gave me a coupon for a version of his book America at Home with a custom cover, and I put Julian and Nicky in the design (see below).…
April 3, 2008
Door Knob
Door Knob, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an unmanipulated photo of a glass door knob. I'm mentioning that this is a straight photo as I…
March 24, 2008
Vertigo
Vertigo, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I lay down at the bottom of the spiral staircase shown in After the Wedding. With my tripod fitting clumsily in…
March 17, 2008
Resurrection
Resurrection, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Are cougars reincarnated as flying insects? Anything is possible. This illustration is a Photoshop composite based on my mountain lion skull…
March 15, 2008
Moby Dick
Moby Dick, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Looking through the lens at the rain-drenched petals of this white cyclamen, I was reminded of something great and white...maybe…
March 3, 2008
Memory Palace
Memory Palace, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This digital photo collage is an elaboration of Dream Palace, itself a manipulation of a photo of William Randolph Hearst's…
February 21, 2008
Whining about Hearst Castle
Pool, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This story is going to be one big whine about Hearst Castle as an abomination of an ersatz tourist trap and…
February 16, 2008
Valentine
Happy Valentine's Day! May you be in love and happy with your sweetie in a most commendably non-commercial way! This image of Hearts on Fire in the Sky is a…
February 14, 2008
Bunny
Bunny, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My second oldest son Nicky likes small, cuddly things. He was definitely taken aback by the raucous fields of elephant seals,…
February 12, 2008
Yawn
Yawn, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Yawn scratch bellow sniff rut flip bellow yawn, watching the world go by! I photographed these elephant seals on the California…
February 12, 2008
Stair Aye
Stair Aye, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the spirit of Arlo Guthrie's somewhat picaresque song Alice's Restaurant, in which a narrative about the Vietnam-era draft ostensibly…
February 3, 2008
Tidepool Creature
Tidepool Creature, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a close-up of a tidepool creature, taken the other day in James V Fitzgerald Marine Preserve near Moss…
January 25, 2008
Resistance to Spirals Is Futile
Resistance to Spirals Is Futile, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There's something hypnotizing about spirals. Even when I start with a perfectly good "straight" photo of a…
January 24, 2008
Stairs
Stairs, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Monday was a school vacation in honor of the great Martin Luther King. The weather was dark and stormy. I took…
January 24, 2008