Marin Headlands
Marin Headlands, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a bright, blustery winter day I wandered the Marin Headlands with photographer and friend Steven C. It's amazing how…
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January 16, 2010
Rift in the Clouds
Rift in the Clouds, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. New Year's Eve featured a blue moon rising early, but the layers of fog and clouds that swept…
January 11, 2010
Won Ton
Won Ton, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a close-up of a won ton dumpling with particularly nice folds in the dough from the take-in Chinese…
January 10, 2010
Having It Both Ways
Yosemite, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In my previous post I showed a photo taken a few years ago of Yosemite Valley---and noted that the work of…
January 7, 2010
Lonely Islet
Lonely Islet, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This lonely islet sits in San Francisco Bay off China Beach a few hundred feet from the shore. It's bigger…
January 3, 2010
Plumbing
Porcelain Series No. 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. For my first post of the new year, I'll note that things are often not what they seem.…
January 1, 2010
Remembrance of Things Past
Remembrance of Things Past, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a high-key image, in the sense that it is predominantly overexposed from the perspective of a…
December 26, 2009
Escape from the Shadows
Escape from the Shadows, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A few weeks ago there was a freak snowstorm in the coastal hills above Berkeley and Oakland, California.…
December 21, 2009
Coastal Range Snow
Coastal Range Snow, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It rained most of the night, and towards morning got cold enough to snow at the crest of the…
December 7, 2009
Map of a Life
Map of a Life, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I don't know very much about this old woman. I photographed her in Las Terrazas, Cuba---part ecology preserve…
November 23, 2009
Milk Scam
Milk Scam, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Across the street from the Cuban capitolio nacional under a dark and crumbling arcade a mother and two daughters watched…
November 12, 2009
White Dahlia
White Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I wasn't planning to photograph any more flowers yesterday. Between kids and work things had been hectic indeed. But when…
October 15, 2009
Piperii Mori
Piper Mori 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Photographer Edward Weston's son Brett (also a gifted photographer) had the unfortunate habit of eating still life subjects---such as…
October 6, 2009
Dark Shore
Dark Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the dense fog and gathering night, the turbulent ocean definitely seemed a force to be reckoned with. Alone at…
September 30, 2009
Seeds
Seeds, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed these seeds on a white piece of paper. The idea was to use the lighting to create a whole…
September 21, 2009
Becoming Echinacea
Becoming Echinacea 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. When I saw this Echinacea bud, I knew the image would have to be black and white because the…
September 20, 2009
Mustard Green
Mustard Green, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In color, this leaf looked like some green and luminous sea creature, complete with curling tentacles. It was with some…
September 15, 2009
Godetia on Paper
Godetia on Paper, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Following the egg yolk separator, more shadow play.
September 12, 2009