Snow Plant
Snow Plant, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The snow plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, is really pretty amazing. Coming up out of snow or forest undergrowth, it produces no…
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May 30, 2006
Be the Bee
Be the Bee, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I have been photographing bees in my garden in the warm sunshine of mid-afternoon. Nikon D200 + 200mm macro…
May 29, 2006
Biggest: Correcting Digital Fisheye Distortion
Biggest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. What do you do as a photographer when confronted with the biggest tree on earth, stretching up so high that it…
May 28, 2006
Garden Sculpture
Garden Sculpture, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Some people have bird baths, plastic gnomes, wishing wells, or pink flamingos in their garden. We have this remains of…
May 17, 2006
Wing
Wing, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Looking at this apparent celestial meteor through my macro rig, I wasn't sure what had fallen to earth. Actually, it is…
May 17, 2006
Being in Clover
Being in Clover, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Friends with benefits. That is kind of the way I feel about a side effect of poking my macro…
May 11, 2006
Don’t Park under the Passionvine
Eye of the Passiflora, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Everyone who knows me---or who reads my blog---knows that I garden to photograph and photograph to garden. Oh,…
May 8, 2006
The Snail and the Lenten Rose
Hellebore Gone to Seed, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The hellebore, or Lenten Rose as it sometimes called, turns out to have a pretty weird life cycle.…
April 30, 2006
Pimping for a Plant
Venus Fly Trap Digesting, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Parenthood has led me down many unexpected avenues: towards emotional and spiritual growth, endless nights without sleep, hospital…
April 29, 2006
Where Did the Ladybug Lose Her Spots?
Ladybug, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. People keep remarking about the "spotless" condition of this ladybug. (Actually, I can see one or two small spots when I…
April 24, 2006
White Anglo Saxon Protestant
Wasp 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. OK, well not really! This is a wasp of the insect kind, of course. This guy (or more likely, gal)…
April 23, 2006
Love in a Mist
Love-in-a-Mist 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Love in a mist, the common name for nigella damascena, is a beautiful but scary-looking flower up close and personal.…
April 20, 2006
Is Nature’s Imperfection Perfect Enough?
Dragonfly, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this dragonfly last summer in Blake Garden. I had a cooperative model, and basically this was a grab-and-shoot situation.…
April 20, 2006
Flowers Cry Too
Flowers Cry Too, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This photo, of my isopogon formosus, was taken with the Nikon macro flash kit. Since the flowers of this…
April 19, 2006
No Escargot: We Want our Dahlia
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The Dahlia is a wonderful flower. It's elegant, almost baroque, and at the same time somehow simple. If a rose is…
April 16, 2006
Here I Am
Here I Am, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. My delight in photographing water drops continues. Someone on Flickr suggested that one of these days I'd morph into…
April 16, 2006
Water of Life
Water of Life, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is one of my favorite of the water drop series I've been working on lately. Taken at sunrise…
April 10, 2006
Kiss Me
Kiss Me, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Like the highway sign in Steve Martin's movie about Los Angeles that in no uncertain terms tells Steve to "kiss…
April 10, 2006