Romanesco Broccoli
Broccoli that we enjoy on our tables is the blossom of a flowering plant, and this is nowhere more apparent than with Romanesco Broccoli, shown in extreme close-up below. The…
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September 29, 2021
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Through a Glass Lightly
Photographing through glass on a light box is one of my favorite photographic pastimes. You can see an album of some of my glass work by clicking here. One of…
September 26, 2021
Dandelion Inversion
A simple Dandelion contains a world, in a sense a fractal world, as each node in the outer Dandelion world reveals its own world within if you get close enough.…
September 25, 2021
Bus Window Impressionism
Riding in a bus is not always exalted or exalting, but it does leave one time for conversation and for looking out the window. In my case, on my recent…
September 16, 2021
Pre-order Composition & Photography by Harold Davis
My new, upcoming book Composition & Photography: Creating Structure Using Forms and Patterns is now available for pre-order from Amazon. I am very excited about this title, which will be…
September 10, 2021
Does size really matter?
Does size really matter? Sometimes smaller is better, as I think is the case with these two light box compositions. Both are based around a lattice of small viola blossoms,…
September 7, 2021
ICM is for iPhones too!
ICM---in camera motion---is a technique used to add interpretive aesthetics to an image by moving the camera during exposure while the shutter is open. Generally, the effect created is impressionistic.…
September 5, 2021
Live Long and Prosper
This photograph shows the Carpellary receptacle of a Lotus flower, Nelumbo nucifera. The Lotus is a sacred flower in both Hinduism and Buddhism. I photographed this Lotus in a small…
September 3, 2021
Cymbidium Orchid and Sidewalk
The Cymbidium Orchid image is a reprocess of a 2016 light box image, with a background texture added at the behest of a client. The Cymbidium grows outdoors in our…
August 26, 2021
More about seeing in Black & White
Recently I've been thinking about black and white photography. One context is the landscape of Iceland, and the relative appropriateness of color and monochrome. A comparison of black & white…
August 24, 2021
Succulents
Photographed with my iPhone 12 on a walk around my neighborhood...Succulents!
August 22, 2021
Hollyhock ‘Halo Candy’
I photographed this Hollyhock (Alcea rosea) blossom from our garden on a light box. The blossom was positioned upright with an improvised holder constructed from paperclips, tape, and an empty…
August 21, 2021
Gullfoss Rift
An unusual feature of the famous and spectacular Gullfoss waterfall is that the water flow makes an almost immediate 90 degree turn to the left at the bottom of the…
July 27, 2021
Godafoss
Godafoss---"Waterfall of the Gods"---is one of the largest and most visited waterfalls in Iceland. It is shown here at sunset (maybe midnight at this time of year!) from above. The…
July 25, 2021
The Windows on the Beast
We call our bus on the Iceland circumnavigation "the Beast"---because the wheels are unimaginably high, the 4-wheel drive is potent, it bounces with a hard suspension, and it is red.…
July 16, 2021
Fire and Ice, Sunflowers and Poppy Pods
I'm off to Iceland in a few days, and very excited about the adventure. I do find that my packing and travel preparation jujitsu has somewhat atrophied over the pandemic…
July 6, 2021
Have you ever seen a poppy seed up really close and personal?
By way of background, check out Poppy Dancer and All Along the Watchtowers and the Papapver pod bouquet in Recent Images. Looking at the close-up of the top of a…
June 29, 2021
Poppy Dancer and All Along the Watchtowers
Lately, I've been photographing poppy pods, dried poppies from our garden. In a few instances, these remains-of-the-day poppies look like fantastic figurines, as in Poppy Dancer, immediately below. For me,…
June 27, 2021