Calling Alice
Alice followed the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole and found a weird world of inexplicable twists and turns. Besides Alice and Lewis Carroll, this twisting photocomposition is in part…
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December 8, 2008
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
One-Off
Transparent Lily, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The bunch of pink Asiatic lilies I got at Trader Joes had one white bud. Almost transulucent, with pink veins,…
December 8, 2008
Meditations on Transparency
Transparency on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Transparency is good in many things: political processes, business contracts, lingerie, and (of course) flower petals. The more it…
December 5, 2008
Bougainvillea Study
Bougainvillea Study, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I took a break from a writing project to work on this bright but simple study of a…
December 5, 2008
International Aperture Awards
Two of my images have won silver awards in the landscape category in the International Aperture Awards 2008 competition. To see more of my awards and publication credits, click…
December 3, 2008
Moonset over San Francisco
Moonset over San Francisco, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The view of San Francisco Bay out to the west from Indian Rock in Berkeley was a bit…
December 2, 2008
Mono Lake Sunset
From time to time I repost from my archives. This is a reposting of a photo and the related story originally published in August 2006. Mono Lake Sunset, photo by…
December 1, 2008
Harold at Black Oak Books
I'll be appearing at Black Oak Books in the Berkeley gourmet ghetto on Saturday, December 6 2008 at 7PM. Please join me. Image shown in the poster: Spirals. Noted photographer…
November 30, 2008
Thanksgiving Sunset
Thanksgiving Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Thanksgiving in the Bay area was overcast and cloudy. Just before sunset there was a break in the clouds to…
November 28, 2008
Digital Night Webcast
Back by popular demand! Harold Davis presents his work and demystifies night photography. If you missed the last Harold Davis night photo webcast, here's your chance. If you attended the…
November 28, 2008
Water Drop Photograph Techniques
From time to time I repost from my archives. This is a reposting of images and a story originally published in July 2006. The force that through the green fuse,…
November 26, 2008
Fog on the Headlands
Fog on the Headlands, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a brilliant, sunny autumn afternoon Mark and I left the Tennessee Valley parking lot. Past the horse…
November 24, 2008
Curves
Dreamweaver Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I was doing some yard work in our garden. It's great to have rose blossoms in late November, and the…
November 23, 2008
Wicker
Wicker, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Sunlight streaming through the bedroom window, the shadow of wicker on a Persian rug. To me, the effect looks…
November 22, 2008
Kids, Family, and (other) Weird Things
Kids, Family, and (other) Weird Things, photo by Harold Davis. This slide goes with a presentation, Less is More: Photographing Kids, Family, and Weird Things, I'll be giving Monday, November…
November 21, 2008
When Stars Wake
When Stars Wake, photo by Harold Davis. As twilight fades to true night the stars wake. First, a few stars start to appear as pin pricks of light on a…
November 20, 2008
Orange Horizon
Orange Horizon, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The light fades on my bluff above the crashing ocean. The vista becomes a combination of islands of clarity in…
November 19, 2008
Pigeon Point
Pigeon Point, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Ever year on a Saturday in November, they turn on the bright light behind the fresnel lens on the old…
November 18, 2008