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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…