Tracks Not Taken
Tracks Not Taken, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is another photo of the abandoned naval shipyards on Mare Island. I like the conjunction of tracks and…
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August 2, 2008
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Katie Is Coming Home
Katie Rose's Face, photo by Harold Davis. When we got to the hospital today we were delighted to find Katie Rose without tape on her face. She's been off her…
July 31, 2008
Magic of the Mundane
Katie's Bottle, photo by Harold Davis. This is a photo of one of the small, plastic bottles used to feed Katie Rose her fortified breast milk. It's amazing how photography…
July 30, 2008
Ten Top Techniques
I was recently asked to compile ten of my favorite tips and techniques from Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers. Here's a look at what I selected, along with the…
July 30, 2008
Katie’s Smile
Katie's Smile, photo by Harold Davis. When we visit Katie Rose in her new quarters in NICU West she opens her eyes, glad to see us. Temperature checked, diaper changed,…
July 29, 2008
Spiral into Sunflower
Spiral into Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: There are spirals in nature and grand artist-created spirals like Robert Smithson's massive spiral jetty. There are…
July 28, 2008
Sunflower
Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I grew this delicious Sunflower for the purposes of photography. Putting it on a black velvet background, I made…
July 26, 2008
Multitasking
Multitasking, photo by Harold Davis. Mathew, who just turned four, gets so engrossed in his computer that he needs to multitask. Which in his case means dragging his small wooden…
July 26, 2008
Spoils of Victory
Spoils of Victory, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: At two and a half minutes, this is my longest exposure from the shoot the other day…
July 26, 2008
Golden Gate Window
Wandering the dark mid-level tiers of Fort Point in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge I came upon a window without glass. This is the same window I photographed…
July 25, 2008
Dome
Dome of St Ignatius Church, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this is the dome of the Jesuit St Ignatius Church, adjacent to San Francisco University.…
July 24, 2008
Jesuit Baroque
Briefly noted: the Jesuit parish St. Ignatius Church was built in 1914 following the destruction of a previous Jesuit church in the great San Francisco earthquake. The docent history of…
July 21, 2008
Ghosts of Mare Island
Ghosts, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mare Island, a peninsula across the Napa River from Vallejo, California, was the site of the first naval shipyard on the…
July 21, 2008
Without Training Wheels
Without Training Wheels, photo by Harold Davis. Katie is now without tubes, not all the time, but sometimes when she is feeding, and for hours at a stretch. Partly, she's…
July 20, 2008
My Brilliant Butterfly
My Brilliant Butterfly, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this Photoshop composite combines a flatbed scan with a number of camera captures on a lightbox. In…
July 17, 2008
Feeding Katie Rose
Katie and Bottle, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose is sneaking up on five pounds. She is doing so well. A couple of days ago, on her first try, she…
July 15, 2008
Gaillardia in Flight
Gaillardia in Flight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Gaillardia in flight...afternoon delight. Well, I did take the images in this composite in the afternoon, and Gaillardia is…
July 15, 2008
Vanishing Point
Like World without End, my image of endless doors, I shot the base photo for this image at Fort Point in San Francisco. In the shadow of the Golden Gate…
July 13, 2008