Mallow, Mucilage, and Bokeh
Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I've been watching my neighbor Brett's mallow tree with great interest. Not because I covet a mallow tree, or his mallow…
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April 28, 2006
Upside-Down, Face-Up Columbine
Columbine, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This columbine in my garden is unusual because it is upside down, for a columbine. Upside down for a columbine means…
April 25, 2006
Love in a Mist
Love-in-a-Mist 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Love in a mist, the common name for nigella damascena, is a beautiful but scary-looking flower up close and personal.…
April 20, 2006
Sunshine in the Gazania Forest
Sunshine in the Gazania Forest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Gazanias, also called African Daisies, are easy to grow around here and gourgeous. The flower, which is…
April 20, 2006
Coral Bells and Memory Card Loss
Coral Bells, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I've never before appreciated the wisdom of the advice to use smaller-sized memory cards rather than a single larger one.…
April 20, 2006
The Iris That Bloom in the Spring
Iris, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's great to have Iris blooming in my garden again. This is an extravagantly beautiful flower. Once established, it keeps on…
April 20, 2006
Flowers Cry Too
Flowers Cry Too, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This photo, of my isopogon formosus, was taken with the Nikon macro flash kit. Since the flowers of this…
April 19, 2006
Macro Photography with the Nikon Close-up Speedlight Remote Kit
Orchid Water Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I recently bought a Nikon Close-up Speedlight Remote Kit to try out adding flash capabilities to my macro repertoire.…
April 17, 2006
No Escargot: We Want our Dahlia
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The Dahlia is a wonderful flower. It's elegant, almost baroque, and at the same time somehow simple. If a rose is…
April 16, 2006
Poppy Three Ways
Luminous Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The saying goes, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." Although why you'd want to skin a cat,…
April 16, 2006
Sun Catcher
Sun Catcher, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. When I take one of these extreme close-up high depth-of-field water drop images, it's really hard to see what the…
April 11, 2006
Water of Life
Water of Life, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is one of my favorite of the water drop series I've been working on lately. Taken at sunrise…
April 10, 2006
Kiss Me
Kiss Me, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Like the highway sign in Steve Martin's movie about Los Angeles that in no uncertain terms tells Steve to "kiss…
April 10, 2006
Dandelion
Dandelion, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. In the great flower versus weed controversy, the oxalis gets my vote as a flower while the dandelion is clearly a…
April 10, 2006
Ferraria Crispa
Ferraria Crispa, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this flower the other day in the South Africa section of the U.C. Berkeley Botanical Garden. It is…
April 8, 2006
Waves of Yellow and Blue Flowers
Yellow and Blue Flowers, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I intentionally selected this clump of blue flowers with yellow flowers in the background, with the idea the…
April 8, 2006
Water Drops on a Peony Leaf
Drops on a Peony Leaf, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Here's another photo showing that the peony has beautiful parts besides its flowers. An extreme magnification, from…
April 8, 2006
Peony Parade
Peony Parade, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Sunlight and water drops on my tree peony flower: what a glorious subject to photograph!
April 8, 2006