Persistence of Personal Vision
I've been struck on a number of occasions how the same elements in a scene interest me photographically, even after a gap of many years. Returning to a mountainside in…
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September 28, 2015
Passion for Flowers
A passion for flower photography is of course one of my ruling passions. What better way to show it than by photographing this Passiflora ("passion flower") from a vine outside our…
September 26, 2015
Special Print Offer: Kiss from a Rose
Special Print Offer: Kiss from a Rose by Harold Davis on Moab Juniper Baryta I am offering a limited-time print special: my Kiss from a Rose, shown below, printed at roughly 11"…
August 29, 2015
Sunflowers and Friends
Sunflowers and Friends is a light box bracketed high-key sequence combined in Photoshop. The sunflowers, echinacea, and other flowers are from our garden, and shown in In the field for transparency…
August 27, 2015
I can only give my heart
Words have a place as a companion to photography, as titles, in captions, in statements, and in books that combine words and imagery. It's often a useful exercise to attempt…
August 25, 2015
In the field for transparency
One interesting point that often comes up in my Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshops (such as the recent one I gave at Maine Media) is whether the techniques I teach…
August 23, 2015
Flowers on Black
I photographed these flowers just now on black seamless as a demonstration of a bracketed sequence for low-key HDR photography from my Maine Media flower photography workshop.
August 6, 2015
Mandahlia: Dahlia Mandala
The basis for this image is a photo I made today during a field trip with my Creative Flower Photography workshop here in Rockport, Maine at the Maine Media Workshops.…
August 4, 2015
Recent News, Interviews, and Webinar
Please check out the following links! My new book Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer: A Photographer's Creative Companion and Workbook is now available and shipping on Amazon. Here's Katie…
July 28, 2015
Clematis on Black
I've edited the slide show on my website home page, www.digitalfieldguide.com, to include some new images including: Salutation to the Sun, Spires of Prague, House of Mirrors, and the Clematis…
July 21, 2015
Conversation with Harold Davis
Dominique James has published a Q&A with me on his blog, along with a cool curation of some of my images. Check it out! Thanks DJ. Yesterday I photographed the…
July 18, 2015
Framed: Flowers of Spring’s Desire
I printed my Flowers of Spring's Desires on Moab's elegant Juniper Baryta Rag for a friend and collector. She framed it in white, with a pink inner mat. Very nice effect.
July 13, 2015
White Dahlia
Every time I am away for an extended trip Phyllis seems to embark on a home improvement project. This time, while I was in the Czech Republic and giving my…
July 12, 2015
Degrees of Translucency
Transparency means something one can look through with clarity, like a sheet of glass or plastic. So what we are interested in is really translucency---the state or condition of being translucent,…
June 20, 2015
Salutation to the Sun
I am taking a little time to process some of the botanical images I've shot so far this year. Soon I will be moving on to photograph the old stones…
June 19, 2015
Two Botanicals
The other day I enjoyed photographing and presenting some local flowers cut from the neighborhood in a fairly traditional way so that the finished images appear at first glance much…
June 10, 2015
Free Webinar: Creative Floral Photography with Harold Davis
What: A Free Webinar. Join Topaz Labs for an exciting session as Harold Davis shows how he uses Topaz plug-ins to enhance his well-known botanical photos. When: Tuesday, Jul 21, 2015 2:00…
June 4, 2015
Sweet Pea after O’Keeffe
After seeing some of my photos mistaken for O'Keeffe's luscious flower paintings, I took another look at the wondrous botanical art of Georgia O'Keeffe. The sensuous, indeed sexual, nature of…
May 26, 2015