Foggy Sea
Foggy Sea, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. What happens when you point a camera out to sea in the fog in an almost pitch-black night? Taken at…
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September 18, 2008
Stars and Milky Way
Stars and Milky Way, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: This is a nine and one half minute exposure from the top of Half Dome looking…
September 17, 2008
Point Reyes Night Photography Workshop
Point Reyes Trawler, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Even though thick fog blanketed the night skies, I think the night photography workshop I taught this past weekend…
September 16, 2008
Line Dance
Line Dance, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. From Sutro Heights Park in San Francisco, there's a straight vista down Ocean Beach and the so-called Great Highway to…
September 9, 2008
Mono Lake by Moon Light
Mono Lake by Moon Light, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the small hours of the morning, at about 2AM, I stopped at a roadside overlook above…
September 8, 2008
Avoiding the “Normal” Histogram
This is a photograph of Bodie Mercantile, the old general store in the ghost town of Bodie. In creating this image, I wanted to be very sure that I exposed…
September 6, 2008
Moonrise over Bodie
Moonrise over Bodie, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As dusk turned to night, participants in the workshop organized by Lance Keimig---Finding Your Way in the Dark---waited for…
September 6, 2008
San Francisco from the Sea
San Francisco from the Sea, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a night view across the outer opening of the Golden Gate towards the lights of…
September 4, 2008
Tennessee Beach at Night
Tennessee Beach at Night, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this is a "conventional" twelve minute night exposure from the top of the cliffs to the…
September 2, 2008
Night Vortex
Night Vortex, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As dusk turned to night, I parked in the Tennesee Beach trailhead lot. The last stragglers made their way back…
September 1, 2008
How Wide the Star-Filled Sky
How Wide the Star-Filled Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took my older boys down to Santa Cruz for a couple of days of beach and…
August 27, 2008
Old Bodie Church
Old Bodie Church, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The south face of this old church in Bodie was primarily lit by moonlight. As I've noted, you get…
August 23, 2008
Standard Mill at Bodie
Standard Mill at Bodie, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The Standard Mill at Bodie (shown here reflected in an old window) was used to process the gold…
August 22, 2008
Tioga Pass Road at Night
Tioga Pass Road at Night, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Tioga Pass is the highest car crossing of the High Sierra. I always find the view down…
August 21, 2008
North Berkeley at Night
North Berkeley at Night, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 32 minute exposure from the roof near my bedroom looking east up San Fernando towards…
August 8, 2008
Tracks Not Taken
Tracks Not Taken, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is another photo of the abandoned naval shipyards on Mare Island. I like the conjunction of tracks and…
August 2, 2008
Spoils of Victory
Spoils of Victory, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: At two and a half minutes, this is my longest exposure from the shoot the other day…
July 26, 2008
Ghosts of Mare Island
Ghosts, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mare Island, a peninsula across the Napa River from Vallejo, California, was the site of the first naval shipyard on the…
July 21, 2008