Little Shop of Horrors
Wet Poppy Bud, photo by Harold Davis. View this poppy larger. This wet poppy bud reminds me of the ominivorous plant Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors. ("Feed me!…
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January 29, 2006
Penance in a Flower
Penance, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. This is the flower commonly known as a Lenten Rose. I photographed it in my garden this afternoon. Of course, it…
January 28, 2006
Flowerific!
Flowerific!, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Over the last week I've been playing around with mixtures. Mixtures of lighting: daylight, tungsten, and spot lighting of various sorts.…
January 27, 2006
Sunflower from Summer
Sun Flower II, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Sometimes immediately after I take a photo, I fall in love with it. But after a while it's no…
January 26, 2006
African Daisy
African Daisy, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Julian and I got some plants last weekend including this African Daisy. As an aside, I said to Phyllis, "I…
January 26, 2006
Very Close
Very Close, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I wanted to see if my old Nikon PB-6 extension bellows, set on a railing, would work for photomacrography with…
January 23, 2006
Primroses in the Rain
Primroses in the Rain, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I photographed these primroses in my garden yesterday in the rain. Well, the rain was stopping and starting,…
January 19, 2006
Prim Rose Not Rose
Primula 8, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. These photos are more from the set I took on my birthday. Check out the earlier primrose posts: Primula Birthday…
January 19, 2006
Potato Vine Flower
Potato Vine Flower, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I photographed this potato vine (solanum jasminoides) flower in our backyard with my Lensbaby and its macro lens. Then…
January 18, 2006
Construction of Nature
Coneflower 4, photo by Harold Davis. Photographed at San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum. View this photo larger. This is the same fantastic Proteaceae (Isopogon Formosos, "Coneflower", native to…
January 18, 2006
Red Hot Peppers
Melastomataceae 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Photographed at San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum. The pistils in this flower remind me of red-hot chili peppers.…
January 16, 2006
Basket Weaving 101
Coneflower 3, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. This is another photo of a Western Australia Coneflower of the Proteaceae genus, specifically Isopogan Formosos I photographed the opther…
January 14, 2006
Flower as Fiber Construction
Coneflower 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I photographed this flower today at the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum. It is a Western Australia Coneflower…
January 14, 2006
Pink Mink
Pink Mink, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. No this isn't a jellyfish, sea anemone, or a moist spider (both of these have been suggested). It is a…
January 13, 2006
Prim? Not.
Primula 3, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Here are some more of the primrose photos from my birthday shoot along with a conundrum: Why is a primrose…
January 12, 2006
Primula Birthday
Primula 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. On my recent birthday (Hint: My number's the same as Herbie's) I went to Berkeley Hort to photograph flowers. I…
January 11, 2006
Big Rock Candy Mountains
Guzmania 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I've photographed this bromeliad flower (it is a Guzmania hybrid) over the last couple of days at Berkeley Hort. The…
January 10, 2006
Winter Mojave Flower
Winter Mojave Flower, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. OK. The important thing when you are on a long road trip with small kids is to stop often…
January 3, 2006