digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
On Photo.net recently Hannah Thiem conducted an interview with me. I think it's the best exposition about my work to date. (Suprada Urval's excellent interview with me covered very different…
One Good Eye, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It's not everyday you photograph a succulent like the one below, and when you look closely you see an…
Cherry Medley, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It was hard for me to resist the cherry branch up closer. Once shot, I had to post-process to create…
Every year the cherry trees flower in the cultivated areas of the hills of California's coastal range, and of course I am impelled to photograph the blossoms. This season the…
Since the world is always changing, photography is largely about capturing states of things---scenes, objects, or people---in the process of change. A single image can intimate the before, and the…
A long way this lepidoptra flew from the rain forest. The time had come to reset balance and right wrongs. Masked Avenger, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.…
Tummy Tyme, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose is learning to lift her head while she is on her tummy. She is helped in this endeavor by her mommy, and…
Alstromeria Medley on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: While photographing the Helleborus, I also placed these alstromeria blossoms on the lightbox; the black variation…
Transmogrification is the process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another. This transmogrification starts with a relatively straight photo of a white hellebore, taken a…
Hidden Seeds, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. After photographing the pink Hellebore, I let it soak for several days. When the petals were transparent to the point…
Mission San Jose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a recent Saturday, Julian and I went to the Tech Museum in San Jose, California for the birthday…
Between committments at Macworld at the Moscone Center I wandered over and indulged my dome photography habit by photographing the dome in the Westfield shopping mall in downtown San Francisco.…
The Wrestlers' Tomb, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Some days I feel I'm channeling Vincent van Gogh, others it is M.C. Escher, and today I am channeling…
Pink Hellebore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this pink hellebore blossom---I think it's a Helleborus x hybridus "Royal Heritage"---using the same technique as the White…
White Hellebore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Hellebores are delicate flowers that bloom close to the ground in partial shade. They are one of our first flowers…
Tugboats, Port Richmond, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It's well known that the California East Bay city of Richmond has serious crime problems. Less well known is…
Green Artifact, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of the Marin Fountain in Berkeley taken at sunset with my fisheye lens. I was surprised…
What do Flickr, Blurb, and multiple sclerosis have in common? How can the combination contribute to the fight against MS, and maybe change the face of publishing at the same…