Reviews of Creative Landscapes
As is probably typical of book authors, I'm pretty obsessive about checking the rankings and reviews for my books on Amazon. I wanted to share with you some of the…
As is probably typical of book authors, I'm pretty obsessive about checking the rankings and reviews for my books on Amazon. I wanted to share with you some of the…
An inversion, in noun form, is a reversal. In verb form, applying an inversion is inverting, or even "to invert." In Photoshop, you can invert an entire image, or a…
Does every photo need to be in focus? Sometimes when I'm approaching landscapes or botanicals it seems that way. The convention is that landscapes are sharp and in-focus, usually across…
Late one spring afternoon I was scouting the bucolic farm country of rural Sonoma County. From Whitaker Bluff under scuttling clouds I photographed this cockeyed fisheye view of the bend…
Recently it was brought to my attention that I appear on the Nikon website in a video conversation sponsored by the professional marketing arm of Nikon cameras. (I knew this…
Picking compulsively at his beloved blanket, Mathew leaves these microscopic skeins of fabric everywhere. He and Nicky have dubbed them "blanket DNA."
Often when I'm out and about with the kids, and not specifically being a photographer, I carry a small camera such as my Nikon P7000. The shots I snap with…
Smack dab in the middle of the Hoover Dam (see shot below) sits an elegant art deco men's room. Our bathroom at home should only look so good. Well, maybe…
Our good friend Mark recently retired from the armed services after 28 years. At his very special and moving retirement ceremony, Mark presented this ceremonial sword to his Dad---a World…
Everytime I post an image of an attractive woman on my blog I get emails asking whether my marriage is in trouble. I appreciate the concern, and thank you! But…
If the best camera to use is the one I have with me, and I always have my iPhone with me, then many times my iPhone will be the best…
It's hard to imagine that you'd have much to worry about in terms of vampira if you were a wanderer in the caves found in this clove of garlic!
Wherever you go, there you are---and so, it turns out, is my new Verizon iPhone 4 camera. This shot of an old car is taken with my iPhone a few…
This is a shot taken in Scott Dickson's garage. In the grand tradition of American garage tinkerers, Scott has constructed a number of devices used to create stop-motion photos involving…
Midway between Owens Valley and the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the west, and Death Valley to the east, six miles from the Racetrack playa, Teakettle Junction is pretty much in…
This is a shot of a hellebore blossom in a bud vase---or, as I like to think, escaping from the bud vase. The drops of water on the bud…
Compass Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A compass rose is a figure on a map or nautical chart used to display the orientation of the cardinal…
Spiral, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a shot looking up a spiral staircase in a tower at Scotty's Castle in Death Valley National Park. I…