On Photo.net recently Hannah Thiem conducted an interview with me. I think it's the best exposition about my work to date. (Suprada Urval's excellent interview with me covered very different…
Cherry Medley, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It was hard for me to resist the cherry branch up closer. Once shot, I had to post-process to create…
Every year the cherry trees flower in the cultivated areas of the hills of California's coastal range, and of course I am impelled to photograph the blossoms. This season the…
Alstromeria Medley on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: While photographing the Helleborus, I also placed these alstromeria blossoms on the lightbox; the black variation…
Transmogrification is the process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another. This transmogrification starts with a relatively straight photo of a white hellebore, taken a…
Hidden Seeds, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. After photographing the pink Hellebore, I let it soak for several days. When the petals were transparent to the point…
White Hellebore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Hellebores are delicate flowers that bloom close to the ground in partial shade. They are one of our first flowers…
Hardenbergia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The gentle rain turned to dappled sunshine, and I went out to photograph water drops in the garden. The drops shown…
Self Portrait with Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I offer this rose in the hope that the new year is prosperous and happy for us all,…
Flowernalia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In ancient times the Romans celebrated the return of the sun with Saturnalia. There was all manner of feasting and revelry,…
Delphinium, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It's a miracle of floral abundancy that delphinium (also called larkspur) grow in my sheltered southwestern bed towards the end of…
Neon, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In May of this year in troubled times I turned to the colors of flowers. This duo is from a set…
I've been photographing flowers for transparency the last few days, and processing them to appear on black and white backgrounds. The trick here is lighting, photography, and Photoshop: so three…
Transparency on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Transparency is good in many things: political processes, business contracts, lingerie, and (of course) flower petals. The more it…
Bougainvillea Study, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I took a break from a writing project to work on this bright but simple study of a…
Dreamweaver Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I was doing some yard work in our garden. It's great to have rose blossoms in late November, and the…
Time in this society, and on the Internet, is biased to the now. But who is to say that a photo I took a while back isn't every bit as…
Rosa 'Rio Samba', photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It rained over night. In the first light of the morning sun, I photographed the translucent petals of this…