This is an image of a thresher, a machine used in farming. A threshing machine separates grains from stalks and husks, or---as the saying goes---separates the wheat from the chaff.…
This is a view of downtown San Francisco across the Marin Headlands from West Point Inn on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais. I shot the photo in 2010, late in…
Sometimes simple is best. I worked hard to achieve simplicity in these images of Bamboo, cut from a variegated plant around the corner from where I live. It is well-known…
Glass Spiral, photo by Harold Davis. The image above was shot through a magnifying lens straight down on a turned-over glass. You can see a bit more of the magnification…
One of the great things about the Crooked Creek Research Station, nestled high in a valley in a desert mountain range east of the Sierras in California, is the curatorial…
This is a photo of the renovation construction at California Memorial Stadium, the football arena associated with UC Berkeley. The cost for this controversial project is upwards of three hundred…
This is a portion of the ribbons rack at Stonemountain and Daughter, a very cool fabric store here in Berkeley, shot for HDR in seven exposures. I used a 12mm…
All art is referential to other art. Even post-modernist art---which makes a point of studiously appearing to avoid artistic antecedents---is in fact playing off the very traditions it thumbs its…
Briefly noted: Some scenes, like this shot of one of the swimming pools at Hearst Castle near San Simeon look more, well, classical when converted to classical monochromatic. Fancy that!
You may be interested in some of my webcasts and video appearances that you can find online. These are all sponsored as noted in the listings, and free to watch.…
The Indian Trail footpath runs down from our Thousand Oaks Berkeley neighborhood to The Alameda. This shortcut makes walking down to restaurants and shopping on the top of Solano Ave…
My kids tell me that a T-Rex dinosaur is a relative of birds like a chicken or turkey, both being descendants of pteradactyls. It's a little hard for me to…
I took Katie Rose for lunch yesterday to Ikea. We both had Swedish meatballs and french fries. Then we started fooling around with my iPhone camera. Altogether Katie and I…
Our June and July, 2011 offering is Following the Path. This unusual high dynamic range image of a country road in late afternoon light suggests the possiblities ahead if one…
This is a side view of an old industrial clothes washing machine of the type that used to be called a "wringing mangle," or sometimes simply a "wringer." I'm thankful…
It's amazing how everyday objects can take on associations that are very different from the mundane reality. Seeing these different realities is a matter of letting go of familarity. To…
From my email bag: "I recently bought several of your books in order to learn something and I got really intrigued by Creative Night and night photography. Here's my question:…
This image is from a demonstration in Photographing Flowers about how to recreate Vincent van Gogh sunflowers. In Photoshop, starting with a pretty normal photo of a sunflower on a…