Rosa ‘Rio Samba’
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…
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November 10, 2008
Purple Flower Dance
Purple Flower Dance, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Like Gaillardia Gone to Seed, this is a flatbed scan, using a black velvet cloth taped into…
November 4, 2008
Red and Purple Gladiola
Red and Purple Gladiola, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I carefully positioned the gladiola stems on a light box. I photographed almost straight down, but…
October 31, 2008
Same Fuschia This Year
Fuschia Gradient, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Down the block, in front of Heidi's house, there's a great fuschia that grows buds like this one (Jet Engine…
October 22, 2008
Angel Wings in the Morning Dew
Angel Wings in the Morning Dew, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: A detail of the petal of a Dawn Chorus poppy in the early morning,…
October 1, 2008
Simple Anemone
Simple Anemone, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this flower is a simple and small anemone from our garden, photographed using a daylight-balanced white box. More…
September 26, 2008
Gaillardia Gone to Seed
Gaillardia Gone to Seed, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a flatbed scan of the seed pods of Gaillardia. (You can see one of these pods…
September 24, 2008
Gaillardia Caucus
Gaillardia Caucus, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Yesterday was the first rain of the season, a light mist that made the garden wet and saturated colors under…
September 20, 2008
Cala Lily Flute
Cala Lily Flute, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I've been experimenting with monochrome (black and white) images of flowers and shells. These images start in…
September 12, 2008
Fresco Flower
[Note: this is a reposting of a story originally published in August 2005.] Fresco Flower, photo by Harold Davis. I thought this photo looked like a painting when I took…
August 18, 2008
Sexy Angel Face
Sexy Angel Face, photo by Harold Davis. This is an Angel Face rose from my garden. I think it is so sexy! Here's another photo of the same rose bud,…
August 14, 2008
Fourth of July Rose
Fourth of July Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: For a special project I needed macro photos of flowers showing selective focus. I photographed this…
August 9, 2008
Spiral into Sunflower
Spiral into Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: There are spirals in nature and grand artist-created spirals like Robert Smithson's massive spiral jetty. There are…
July 28, 2008
Sunflower
Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I grew this delicious Sunflower for the purposes of photography. Putting it on a black velvet background, I made…
July 26, 2008
Gaillardia in Flight
Gaillardia in Flight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Gaillardia in flight...afternoon delight. Well, I did take the images in this composite in the afternoon, and Gaillardia is…
July 15, 2008
Zeiss 100mm f/2 Macro Lens
Gaillardia, Papaver, and Iris, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I bought a Zeiss Macro 100mm f/2 ZF Makro-Planar T* Manual Focus Lens to use with…
July 8, 2008
Revelation and Hiding
Crown of Hydrangea, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Several years ago I planted a couple of exotic hydrangea plants in the shade in my front garden. (I…
July 1, 2008
Balloon Flower on Black
Balloon Flower on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this Balloon flower and jasmine arrangement on a black background. Unlike Playcodon and Jasminum, where I…
June 21, 2008