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…
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July 12, 2007
Blue Velvet Sunset
Blue Velvet Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo shows the head of the Point Reyes peninsula peering out at sunset from under formidable cloud cover.…
July 10, 2007
Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Baker
Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Baker, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The evening looked to have some fog over the Golden Gate, but I decided to try…
July 9, 2007
Estero by Starlight
Estero by Starlight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A recent hike along the Estero Trail in Point Reyes ending in night: starlight on Drakes Estero. Venus was…
July 9, 2007
Estero at Low Tide
Estero at Low Tide, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My nephew Peter, a strapping 25-year-old from Minnesota, and my friend Mark and I went for a sunset-to-night…
July 7, 2007
White Balance and the RAW Landscape
Mark and I went back out to Arch Rock last night. It was a little earlier than my last hike out there, so I was able to work my way…
July 6, 2007
Yosemite Valley from Half Dome
Yosemite Valley from Half Dome, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 9 1/2 minute exposure taken from the top of Half Dome a little after…
July 5, 2007
Golden Gate Moonrise
Golden Gate Moonrise, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As the full moon rose behind the Golden Gate, I quit trying to photograph the moon beneath the bridge.…
July 3, 2007
Moon Shines Bright
Moon Shines Bright, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On Saturday I knew the full rose moon was coming up at 9:29PM. I decided to try for some…
July 2, 2007
Rose Moon Rising
Rose Moon Rising, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Full summer moons toward the end of June are sometimes called "rose moons," and this one lives up to…
June 30, 2007
Hidden Beach
Hidden Beach, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mark and I hiked out to Arch Rock. It was a crap shoot whether we'd be fogged out, but emerging…
June 29, 2007
Moon Shadow of Half Dome
Moon Shadow of Half Dome, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took this photograph during my vigil on the top of Half Dome at about 11:20PM. It's…
June 28, 2007
Exposing the Night Landscape
Photographers often ask me how to get the right exposure with night landscapes. It's a tricky topic. My experience is that the light meter in my dSLR is pretty much…
June 28, 2007
Snakes and Ladders
Half Dome Ladder, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Back down from Glacier Point in the early predawn hours, I caught a few hours sleep and then started…
June 26, 2007
Half Dome by Starlight
Half Dome by Starlight 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Last week I went to Yosemite. As my kids might say, this was an "opposites day" venture:…
June 25, 2007
Midnight Rambles
Midnight Rambles, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took this photo of the view down Tenaya Canyon towards Half Dome shortly before midnight on June 21. I…
June 23, 2007
Golden Gate in Summer
Golden Gate in Summer, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A great bank of fog has covered the Bay area, so it's a little hard to remember that…
June 16, 2007
Beauty in the Belly of the Beast
Silicon Valley from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a thirty second time exposure from the top of Mission Peak. It is looking down…
June 14, 2007