Ghost Flowers
I noticed some white "Iceberg" roses growing in a corner of my garden. Their lovely white-on-white shapes truly appealed to me, but I knew all the whiteness would cause difficulties…
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May 20, 2012
Tulip
The tulips were strongly backlit by the sun. The flowers were also swaying to and fro in a swift breeze. With my 200mm telephoto macro lens mounted on a tripod…
May 15, 2012
Clematis
Like my Star Magnolia Panorama, I shot these Clematis flowers using a lightbox as the background. The image was shot in three pieces, each piece an HDR blend of six…
April 27, 2012
Star Magnolia Panorama
To create this image of a Star Magnolia, I brought some branches into my studio and arranged them on my lightbox. I shot the images in three panels using HDR…
April 20, 2012
Sunflowers on Black
It's hard not to love sunflowers. Sunflowers are a sunny flower. It's in the name, and also in the big, yellow, platter-sized flowers. They are artistic and often painted by…
April 4, 2012
Duet of Daffodils
Traditionally, when daffodils bloom it is a harbinger of spring. In a famous poem, William Wordsworth described a group of daffodils encountered on a walk with his sister in England's Lake District this…
March 1, 2012
Flowering Quince on My “Bucket List”
Most photographers have bucket lists of things they'd like to photograph before they die. Flowering quince---because of the lushness of the blossoms contrasted with the sparseness of the stems--has long…
February 19, 2012
Floral Arrangements
I've had a little time lately to shoot more flowers on white. These two floral arrangements feature orchids---buying them for photography seemed a little expensive at the time, but in…
February 5, 2012
Cherry Dance
Cherry Dance is manifestly a digital art creation. This collage combines a photo of blossoms on a cherry branch with two flat-bed scans of paper---using Photoshop to create a whole that resembles…
January 20, 2012
Floral Tapestries
To create these images, I arranged flowers on a lightbox that was proportionally much wider than it was tall. Next, I shot straight down with a macro lens, bracketing for…
January 8, 2012
Paperwhite Waterdrops
The Paperwhite, Narcissus papyraceus, is a small white flower related to the Daffodil. Grown from a bulb, the plant is originally from the Mediterranean basin. It's commonly thought of as…
December 18, 2011
Intricate Detail of Nature’s Perfection
My image, Intricate Detail of Nature's Perfection (shown above), was a winner in the 2011 North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) contest. Today (October 24, 2011) Intricate Detail graces the…
October 24, 2011
Scabiosa Pods and Fern
Possibly I am obsessed. The same set of shooting and post-production techniques that work to make imagery of glassware look something like antique drawings also work on ferns and seed…
October 9, 2011
Anemone and Water Drops
How fine it is to take advantage of a light rain, and photograph waterdrops caught in a spider web! A small, delicate flower, an anemone, is behind the web and…
October 3, 2011
Photographing Flowers is shipping
Just a brief note to say that Photographing Flowers: Exploring Macro Worlds with Harold Davis, published by Focal Press, is now shipping and available from Amazon and Barnes & Nobles.…
September 28, 2011
Floral Tapestry Panel
This is a panel in a "floral tapestry"---shot in several pieces using a lightbox as the background, then stitched together as a panorama. Related image and story: Making a Floral…
September 23, 2011
Go van Gogh: August print offer from Harold Davis
Go van Gogh is an unusual image of a sunflower in the swirling style of Vincent van Gogh presented against a starry night sky. The image makes a great large…
August 2, 2011
Making a Floral HDR Panorama
This is a floral HDR panorama, meaning I shot it in two horizontal pieces planning to stitch the pieces together. The logistics of this were somewhat complex---as with any HDR…
July 26, 2011