On My Way to Visit Katie Rose
Tuesday evening I gave a presentation to the Marin Photo Club about night photography, then drove into San Francisco to visit Katie Rose in the hospital. My drive took me…
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July 10, 2008
Surf and Stars
We've had a couple of spells of really warm weather lately. This is an unusual pattern for the San Francisco Bay area in summer. It is well known that summer…
June 25, 2008
Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. At one time one of the longest bridges in the world, the John F McCarthy Memorial Bridge is a…
June 18, 2008
Mount Tamalpais from Corte Madera Creek
Mount Tamalpais from Corte Madera Creek, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A long, happy, tiring, and exciting day began for me with a visit with my three…
June 16, 2008
Port Oakland at Night
Wan Hai 505, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. For our second night of shooting in my night photography workshop we left the dark hills and went down…
May 6, 2008
Spirits of the Night
Spirits of the Night, photo by David Joseph-Goteiner. If you weren't at the digital night photography workshop I gave over the weekend here in Berkeley and on location in nearby…
May 5, 2008
2,407 Seconds
Star Circles 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is my second forty minute exposure of stars circling over the Point Reyes the other night. The original…
May 2, 2008
Star Circles
Star Circles, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Two thousand four hundred seconds, about forty minutes. Actually longer, maybe three thousand five hundred seconds, or close to an…
May 1, 2008
Big Dipper
Big Dipper, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. While shooting the Star Trawler and Pole Star sequence, I noticed that the old, wrecked trawler Point Reyes could be…
April 29, 2008
Camping on Angel Island
Campsite #4, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I spent a night last week camping on Angel Island. Smack dab in the middle of San Francisco Bay, wild…
April 25, 2008
Pole Star
Pole Star, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the last of a sequence of twelve photos of the wrecked Point Reyes trawler near Inverness. I took…
April 18, 2008
The Long and Short
Star Trawler 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is my first, and shortest, exposure of the Point Reyes boat the other night. As I explained in…
April 18, 2008
Star Trawler
Star Trawler 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 1,204 second (or about twenty minute) exposure of the wrecked fishing trawler Point Reyes. I've photographed…
April 17, 2008
Darkness Revealed
Two things are special to me about wandering the night with my digital camera. The first is the way I experience night. The second is the way a digital sensor…
March 26, 2008
So It Begins
So It Begins, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The lunar eclipse a few nights ago was already beginning when I got to Inspiration Point. Later, as the…
February 24, 2008
Lunar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A full lunar eclipse was scheduled just after moon rise in the early evening in the Bay area. My hope,…
February 21, 2008
Winter Moon and Cherry Leaves
Winter Moon and Cherry Leaves, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Christmas eve we had lots of family over, a turkey dinner, and the table groaned. Later, after…
December 25, 2007
Harold Davis Night Photography Workshop
I'll be leading a hands-on workshop on digital night photography from May 2-4, 2008 under the auspices of Digital Stop in Berkeley, California. Please consider joining me for a fun…
December 16, 2007