digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Simple Anemone, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this flower is a simple and small anemone from our garden, photographed using a daylight-balanced white box. More…
Katie Rose in Chiaroscuro, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Katie Rose was sleeping upstairs. The room was dark, except for a low-watt lamp that illuminated part of…
Gaillardia Gone to Seed, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a flatbed scan of the seed pods of Gaillardia. (You can see one of these pods…
Curvature, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: A brisk, cold wind blew as the sun set over the Pacific. Mark and I were perched on the…
Between Earth and Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On our way home from a sunset-to-night hike on the Tomales Point fork of Point Reyes, Mark and…
Door Knob, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I gave Julian a lesson in macro photography, and for practice I showed him how to photograph this…
Gaillardia Caucus, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Yesterday was the first rain of the season, a light mist that made the garden wet and saturated colors under…
Milkweed, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I found these grounded milkweed seeds along the Hidden Valley Trail near Limantour on Point Reyes. [Nikon D300, 105mm…
Foggy Sea, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. What happens when you point a camera out to sea in the fog in an almost pitch-black night? Taken at…
Stars and Milky Way, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: This is a nine and one half minute exposure from the top of Half Dome looking…
Point Reyes Trawler, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Even though thick fog blanketed the night skies, I think the night photography workshop I taught this past weekend…
Hands across the Generations, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Katie Rose's Grandma Barbara (Phyllis's mom) has come to stay with us for a little while. We needed…
Cala Lily Flute, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I've been experimenting with monochrome (black and white) images of flowers and shells. These images start in…
Spin, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. This is a photo of one of the Ferris Wheels on the Santa Cruz boardwalk (the spinning Ferris Wheel is also…
Line Dance, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. From Sutro Heights Park in San Francisco, there's a straight vista down Ocean Beach and the so-called Great Highway to…
Replacement Child, book cover design using a photo by Harold Davis. This is the cover of The Replacement Child, a mystery by Christine Barber. The book is to be published…
Mono Lake by Moon Light, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the small hours of the morning, at about 2AM, I stopped at a roadside overlook above…
This is a photograph of Bodie Mercantile, the old general store in the ghost town of Bodie. In creating this image, I wanted to be very sure that I exposed…