digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
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…
North Fork, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The north fork of the Point Reyes peninsula stretches through historic dairy farms and rolling green hills towards Tomales Point.…
Night Shift, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. From a location with a panoramic view of the Golden Gate, I watched as day shifted to night. In this…
Get ready to start scrolling! Tilt your head. Dudes and Dudettes, this panorama of the Golden Gate was stitched together from ten RAW files using the Photoshop CS3 Extended Photomerge…
The Power of the Moon, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On Tennessee Beach the powerful moon lit the scene so it seemed almost as bright as day…
Starting with my photo of the Westfield Mall dome, I stayed up most of the night and worked the image in Photoshop. A trick with this kind of thing is…
Setting Venus, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an eight minute exposure showing Venus setting into the Pacific looking west from Tennessee Beach.
Cry of the Heart, photo by Harold Davis. I had a licensing request for images of bristlecone pines from the Methuselah Grove in California's White Mountains. These trees are believed…
Cameo, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the dome in the Westfield shopping mall in downtown San Francisco. I believe the dome itself is antique, but…
What is the appeal of black and white photography? After all, we see the world in color, and a gray day is emotionally perceived as depressing and monotonous. Historically, black…
Leaf Civilization, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Do you know the way to San Jose? Probably not when the scene at night integrates with this hellebore leaf,…
Beyond the Fog, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On the last clear evening of 2008 we hiked out to the summit of Wildcat Peak, getting there just…
Hardenbergia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The gentle rain turned to dappled sunshine, and I went out to photograph water drops in the garden. The drops shown…
Above the Clouds, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Below, the city was quiet on New Year's Day, recovering from celebrations and wrapped in dense, dank, cold clouds.…