Serendipity Rules
Crassula argentea, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It rained overnight, and after I dropped the boys off at the school bus stop the weather turned perfect for…
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December 9, 2010
Run Silent Run Deep
Run Silent Run Deep, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is Photoshop art, created from the photo of a rose hip and seeds shown below. I photographed…
December 2, 2010
Dahlia
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Here's a rather pretty Dahlia from my files, shot last year in the gardens of the Golden Gate Park,…
November 22, 2010
Passiflora
Passiflora, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A Passiflora vine twines around the No Parking sign in front of our house here in Berkeley, California. Nicky pointed out…
October 22, 2010
Whirl of Rose
Whirl of Rose, photo by Harold Davis. Briefly noted: This is one of the roses I brought to a recent Creative Close-Ups workshop. I photographed the blossom straight down using…
October 20, 2010
Rose
Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I finally got around to post-processing this rose photo, originally shot in 2007. Like most active photographers I have a huge…
October 1, 2010
Poppies
Poppies, photo by Harold Davis. Briefly noted: I photographed these poppies (Papaver Rhoeas) for transparency by backlighting them using a lightbox. Exposure data: 50mm macro, six captures at shutter speeds…
September 22, 2010
Dahlia
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I placed this Dahlia from my garden on a black background, and lit it from the front using a small LED…
September 21, 2010
Tulip
Tulip, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: This tulip was great fun to photograph. I used back lighting to make it seem like the core of…
September 17, 2010
Dahlias and Echinaceas
Dahlias and Echinaceas, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: An arrangement of Dahlias and Echniaceas from my garden. I love photographing flowers---and it is great that…
August 26, 2010
Rose
Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a grab shot of a backlit rose, found along the street---as much as anything with a 200mm telephoto macro…
August 3, 2010
Cycle of Life
Cycle of Life, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Spring turns to summer, the precise demarcation of the season change lost for me in a haze of books…
July 7, 2010
Dahlia Flutes
Dahlia Flutes Purple, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger Two recent macro shots of a Dahlia reveal the structure and mystery of this flower viewed extremely close-up. Both…
July 2, 2010
Dahlia
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I found this nearly perfect Dahlia growing my garden, in one of the protected side-yard raised beds that I use for…
June 29, 2010
Papaver and Campanula
Papaver and Campanula, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an image of Papaver Rhoeas and Campanula---or, to use common names, Poppy and Bellflower---both kinds of flowers…
June 26, 2010
Light of the Poppy
Light of the Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I photographed this poppy from my garden using late afternoon sunlight startegically beamed through a sheet…
June 21, 2010
Papaver Rhoeas Portrait
Papaver Rhoeas Portrait, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I've been photographing people lately---and writing, thinking, eating and breathing portraits, people photography, and lighting people for my new…
June 10, 2010
Orbit
Orbit, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Head down and hard at work on a new book project, it was fun this morning to take a break. My…
May 26, 2010