Day of Reckoning
Day of Reckoning, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. To make a fisheye composition work, usually you need an interesting foreground subject up very close and personal as…
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July 11, 2009
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Coming and Going
Coming and Going, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. After dark, before moonrise, I set my tripod up on the median strip of University Ave at Sixth Street…
July 10, 2009
First Light
First Light, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: This is a re-cropped (and slightly re-processed) version of Upper Yosemite Falls. (See the original story for info…
July 9, 2009
Chasing the Moon
Moon Caught, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Late afternoon yesterday was clear and wonderful here in East Bay. I knew the full moon would be rising at…
July 7, 2009
Moon Walk
Moon Walk, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a shot by moonlight, taken in the high, arid White Mountains along the California-Nevada border. The two minute…
July 6, 2009
Touching the Rainbow
Touching the Rainbow, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the Patriarch Grove, abode of some of the oldest living things, the Bristlecone Pines, the weather was wild…
July 3, 2009
Shaving Spirals
Shaving Spirals, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: a photo composite created from the shavings left after sharpening a pencil.
July 3, 2009
Pencil Shavings
Pencil Shaving I, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The shavings from a sharpened pencil, shown above and below, were almost discarded, but made an interesting pattern. View…
June 29, 2009
More Grills Gone Wild
More Grills Gone Wild, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In case the first Grills Gone Wild wasn't enough...
June 26, 2009
Grills Gone Wild
Grills Gone Wild, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an abstraction based on the car grill shown below and Chrome, seen in my Car Show story.…
June 24, 2009
Eye
Eye Study 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I keep trying to emulate Escher's Eye. Which, as I might have expected, is harder than meets the, er,…
June 23, 2009
Car Show
Chrome, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On Saturday I took Julian to the Classic Car Show on the Tiburon waterfront. It was lots of fun, and I…
June 22, 2009
Lines
Hill, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I've been thinking about lines in composition, and black & white. Here are two examples where both visual effects come into…
June 21, 2009
Self Portrait
Self Portrait, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Inspired by Eye, a mezzotint by M.C. Escher, I created this self portrait with purple Clematis blossoms reflected in my…
June 19, 2009
Interstitial
Interstitial, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I combined six different captures of these tiny water drops caught in a spider's web to capture the range of light…
June 18, 2009
New Harold Davis Photo.Net Column
My new column, Focusing on What Matters, in my Becoming a More Creative Photographer series on Photo.Net is now online. Enjoy! Previous article in the series: Expecting the Unexpected. View…
June 16, 2009
Point Reyes Twilight
Point Reyes Twilight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the LCD, this twilight view of Point Reyes looked like grey mush. Probably the fault of the auto…
June 14, 2009
Nigella Verso Reverso
Nigella Verso Reverso, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the Love-in-the-mist flower, Nigella damascena, recto and verso, on black.
June 11, 2009