Songbird
Songbird, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a columbine, called a Songbird Columbine, that I photographed today in classical mode using a long macro lens, high…
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June 9, 2006
Poppy in the Sun
Poppy in the Sun, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this poppy early this morning in my garden. It is a papaver somniferum, or opium poppy,…
June 6, 2006
Noon a Purple Glow
Noon a Purple Glow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I named this photo using a line from a William Butler Yeats poem Lake Isle of Innisfree (the…
June 5, 2006
Spiral in a Mallow
Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a photograph at fairly high magnification (about 8:1) of an annual Mallow flower, Lavatera trimestris. I photographed it today…
June 2, 2006
Raise High the ISO, Digital Photographic Craftspeople!
Calochortus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Wild flowers---like the Calochortus above, also sometimes called a Mariposa Lily---grow along Hite's Cove Trail above the South Fork of the…
May 31, 2006
Snow Plant
Snow Plant, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The snow plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, is really pretty amazing. Coming up out of snow or forest undergrowth, it produces no…
May 30, 2006
Be the Bee
Be the Bee, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I have been photographing bees in my garden in the warm sunshine of mid-afternoon. Nikon D200 + 200mm macro…
May 29, 2006
Peony Glowing
Peony Glowing, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. For me, photography is about color and light. The two come together in flowers that are backlit by the sun,…
May 28, 2006
Yucca Flower
Flowering Yucca, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Driving down the dramatic road from Grant Grove into Kings Canyon, Julian and I descended through a gentle but steady…
May 27, 2006
Drama Queen
Drama Queen, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a Papaver somniferum---yes, the poppy from which opium is made--being beautiful in my garden. This particular variety of…
May 27, 2006
Luminous Lily
Luminous Day Lily, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Luminous---emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light. Surely this day lily from my side yard is luminous.…
May 19, 2006
Garden Sculpture
Garden Sculpture, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Some people have bird baths, plastic gnomes, wishing wells, or pink flamingos in their garden. We have this remains of…
May 17, 2006
Being in Clover
Being in Clover, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Friends with benefits. That is kind of the way I feel about a side effect of poking my macro…
May 11, 2006
Poppy in the Morning
Dawn Chorus 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is this first flower from this papaver, poetically (and aptly) named Dawn Chorus. View this photograph larger. Usually…
May 10, 2006
Don’t Park under the Passionvine
Eye of the Passiflora, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Everyone who knows me---or who reads my blog---knows that I garden to photograph and photograph to garden. Oh,…
May 8, 2006
Purple Gleam Poppy Popping
California Poppy Purple Gleam, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a California Poppy, Eschscholzia californica "Purple Gleam," in my garden. I photographed the first bud on…
May 5, 2006
Columbines with my Nikon D200
Columbine 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Columbines are wonderful flowers, with delicate lines and strong shapes and colors. They are difficult to photograph. Facing the earth,…
May 3, 2006
The Snail and the Lenten Rose
Hellebore Gone to Seed, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The hellebore, or Lenten Rose as it sometimes called, turns out to have a pretty weird life cycle.…
April 30, 2006