Mount Tamalpais Sunset
Mount Tamalpais Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As I watched the clouds swirl through the Golden Gate, I turned and saw the setting sun beside Mount…
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September 14, 2007
Blowing in the Golden Gate
Blowing in the Golden Gate, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. When the clouds blow in the Golden Gate (which is often) and when there's also a blue…
September 14, 2007
Point Reyes Sunset
Point Reyes Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. What's a photographer to do? With the sun setting along the coast, however you expose the image the sun…
September 13, 2007
Westernesse
Westernesse, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the most western point of the Point Reyes peninsula, and therefore the most western spit of land in the…
September 7, 2007
Star Trails
Star Trails, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I wanted to properly expose an image that showed long star trails without the moon. I set my timer to…
September 7, 2007
Using the Exposure Equation
There are a number of problems to solve in night photography, including seeing what you are doing, not falling off a cliff in the dark, running out of juice in…
September 7, 2007
Night Music
Night Music, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On our Sea Ranch vacation we had a number of clear nights without fog. I took advantage of these nights…
August 29, 2007
Cedar Break
Cedar Break, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. When landscape architect Lawrence Halprin camped on the rugged 5,200 acre ranch on the northern Sonoma coast that was to…
August 28, 2007
Slipping into the Future
In a significant way, photography is about time. A photograph freezes action and captures a moment. Looking at photographs we see the past, perhaps our past. Photographs become memories. Unlike…
August 18, 2007
Moon over Bolinas
Moon over Bolinas, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Returning home after an afternoon hike in Steep Ravine followed by dinner and sunset photography on Stinson Beach, Mark…
August 15, 2007
Still Standing
Still Standing, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this arch looking down a cliff on the western side of the Tomales Point peninsula on Point Reyes.…
August 13, 2007
Adamant
Adamant, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Adamant. Indomitable. This rock stands, no matter how the surf pounds. It stands on the Pacific side of Tomales Point in…
August 12, 2007
Lee Shore
Lee Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mark and I hiked again on the Tomales Point Trail on Point Reyes. We watched sunset from a ledge high…
August 11, 2007
Persistence of Vision
Persistence of Vision, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo from the end of the Berkeley Pier looking towards the Golden Gate Bridge. The Berkeley…
July 31, 2007
Diffusion of the Moon
Diffusion of the Moon, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Only a fifteen second exposure, with more light than you'd expect: the bank of clouds surrounding the moon…
July 26, 2007
Mt Tamalpais from Berkeley Marina
Mt Tamalpais from Berkeley Marina, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We left the Berkeley Pier and I drove down to the breakwater in front of the channel…
July 23, 2007
Peering at the Golden Gate
Golden Gate from Berkeley Pier, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I celebrated Julian's 10th birthday a bit early yesterday with Julian and his grandparents (they won't be…
July 16, 2007
Moonshine
Moonshine, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. At two minutes, this exposure was smack dab in the middle of the dynamic range for capturing bright moonlight. In other…
July 12, 2007