Garden in a Water Drop
Garden in a Water Drop, photo by Harold Davis. To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm…
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February 10, 2006
Anthropomorphization
Ranunculus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Along with an idealized (and often false) perfection in nature photography, we look for something we can relate to. That's why…
February 9, 2006
Perfection and Imperfection
Imperfection, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Why do we expect our great photographs of nature to show perfection? The truth is that nature is rarely perfect. Human…
February 9, 2006
Stars Like Diamonds
Stars Like Diamonds, photo by Harold Davis. View this photomacrograph larger. Yesterday after the rain had ended I went out with my rig. I stopped along the outer fence of…
February 3, 2006
Mathew in a Tunnel
Mathew in a Tunnel, photo by Harold Davis. We got out the Ikea play tent for Mathew, and he and I spent some time crawling through the tunnel. Great fun!…
February 3, 2006
Helleborus in the Rain
Helleborus in the Rain, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I photographed this simple, innocent, child-like flower, with its raindrop for an eye, as part of the same…
February 3, 2006
Water World
Water World, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. In brief: this photomacrograph is up close of the leaves of a flowering plant with water drops. It's so close…
February 2, 2006
Camellia Night
Camellia Night, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. It was raining the other night, and very wet. The raindrops looked very pretty on the new camellia buds. I…
January 31, 2006
Little Shop of Horrors
Wet Poppy Bud, photo by Harold Davis. View this poppy larger. This wet poppy bud reminds me of the ominivorous plant Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors. ("Feed me!…
January 29, 2006
Sunflower from Summer
Sun Flower II, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Sometimes immediately after I take a photo, I fall in love with it. But after a while it's no…
January 26, 2006
Centered
Centered, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Finally! Centered! After many long troubles, toils, and fear: the sun centered above the suspension arcs of the Golden Gate Bridge.…
January 25, 2006
Goose and Crane
Goose and Crane, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Julian and I wandered around the bizarre Middle Harbor Shoreline State Park in the Port of Oakland. Great views…
January 25, 2006
Compression and Symmetry
Sun Compression, photo by Harold Davis. See this image larger. As marvels of engineering, suspension bridges are known for their use of compression and symmetry. The Golden Gate Bridge is…
January 24, 2006
Love in the Ruins
Ruin, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. No not really. But I thought the headline might get your attention. These photos were taken around the area of the…
January 17, 2006
Basket Weaving 101
Coneflower 3, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. This is another photo of a Western Australia Coneflower of the Proteaceae genus, specifically Isopogan Formosos I photographed the opther…
January 14, 2006
Flower as Fiber Construction
Coneflower 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I photographed this flower today at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum. It is a Western Australia Coneflower…
January 14, 2006
Pink Mink
Pink Mink, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. No this isn't a jellyfish, sea anemone, or a moist spider (both of these have been suggested). It is a…
January 13, 2006
My New Toy
Monitor Lizard, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I photographed this monitor lizard at the Vivarium in Berkeley with my new toy. My new toy is a Pentax…
January 10, 2006