Sometimes Simple Works
Pink Papaver, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a bright, but overcast, spring morning I saw this pink Papaver rhoeas in the morning dew. I photographed it…
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May 8, 2008
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Iris on Black
Iris on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an Iris ensata ‘Azuma-kagami’, from the same planting as my photo of last spring. I used the…
May 7, 2008
Port Oakland at Night
Wan Hai 505, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. For our second night of shooting in my night photography workshop we left the dark hills and went down…
May 6, 2008
Spirits of the Night
Spirits of the Night, photo by David Joseph-Goteiner. If you weren't at the digital night photography workshop I gave over the weekend here in Berkeley and on location in nearby…
May 5, 2008
Gaillardia x grandiflora
Gaillardia x grandiflora, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This flower is a Gaillardia x grandiflora 'Oranges and Lemons'. Gaillardias are native to North America, and are sometimes…
May 5, 2008
2,407 Seconds
Star Circles 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is my second forty minute exposure of stars circling over the Point Reyes the other night. The original…
May 2, 2008
Angel Island Views
Golden Gate Reflections, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There was a strong wind blowing at my Angel Island campsite, and my tent puffed in and out like…
May 2, 2008
Great Horned Owl Chicks
Great Horned Owl Chicks, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My wonderful Pilates teacher Jennifer Durning told me about the Great Horned Owls in Claremont Canyon, Oakland. Three…
May 1, 2008
Star Circles
Star Circles, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Two thousand four hundred seconds, about forty minutes. Actually longer, maybe three thousand five hundred seconds, or close to an…
May 1, 2008
Wright Stairs
Wright Stairs, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo taken looking straight up one of the smaller, back staircases at the Marin Center, designed by…
April 29, 2008
Big Dipper
Big Dipper, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. While shooting the Star Trawler and Pole Star sequence, I noticed that the old, wrecked trawler Point Reyes could be…
April 29, 2008
Falling in Love on White
Falling in Love on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the Papaver rhoeas 'Falling in Love' that I photographed on a black background. The version…
April 29, 2008
Falling in Love
Falling in Love, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of a Papaver rhoeas 'Falling in Love,' a double variety of Papaver rhoeas I got…
April 28, 2008
Looking Down
Looking Down, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took the original version of this photo (you can see it below) from the top of a rotunda in…
April 28, 2008
Red Flowering Dogwood Blossom
Red Flowering Dogwood, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Phyllis and I celebrated our wedding anniversary last week. Sixteen years, three kids and one more on the way,…
April 26, 2008
Camping on Angel Island
Campsite #4, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I spent a night last week camping on Angel Island. Smack dab in the middle of San Francisco Bay, wild…
April 25, 2008
High Focal Range (HFR)
Daffodil, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. If you've ever looked closely at a daffodil like this beautiful specimen, you'll know that within the outer yellow petals is…
April 22, 2008
Monochrome Shore
Monochrome Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I've been thinking a good bit lately about making black and white prints from certain of my digital images. Actually,…
April 22, 2008