digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
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…
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…