Simple Pleasures
Simple Pleasures, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Wet flowers in my garden after early morning rain are not profound. These are simple pleasures. To read more about…
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July 20, 2007
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
No Time to Be Lost
I'm reading the wonderful Aubrey-Maturin series of sea stories aloud to my oldest son, Julian. If you stick around "lucky" Captain Jack Aubrey, you'll surely come to recognize his motto,…
July 19, 2007
Patience
Gerbera Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It rained overnight, rare for around here in July. We were in a cloud in the morning. Wisps of fog,…
July 18, 2007
Day Lily
Day Lily, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This morning I was up early. Even though I had a great deal of writing and office work to do,…
July 17, 2007
Peering at the Golden Gate
Golden Gate from Berkeley Pier, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I celebrated Julian's 10th birthday a bit early yesterday with Julian and his grandparents (they won't be…
July 16, 2007
Taming Extravagant Dynamic Range
At the end of June this year, the full moon rose in the eastern sky at about sunset (although by July 2 after dark). This cosmologic timing gave me the…
July 16, 2007
Serpent Mother
Serpent Mother, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Matt and Amy and their kids came down from Placerville to go to the Fire Arts Festival at The Crucible…
July 13, 2007
Moonshine
Moonshine, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. At two minutes, this exposure was smack dab in the middle of the dynamic range for capturing bright moonlight. In other…
July 12, 2007
Does a Cerclage Cause Blondness?
Phyllis sent Dr. Michael Katz, the high-risk ob-gyn whom we credit with the safe birth of our younger two sons, the photos of Mathew on his third birthday. Dr Katz's…
July 12, 2007
Mathew on His Third Birthday
Mathew on His Third Birthday 1, photo by Harold Davis. We celebrated our youngest member, Mathew, and his third birthday yesterday at home with his siblings and grandparents (above). I…
July 11, 2007
Blue Velvet Sunset
Blue Velvet Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo shows the head of the Point Reyes peninsula peering out at sunset from under formidable cloud cover.…
July 10, 2007
Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Baker
Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Baker, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The evening looked to have some fog over the Golden Gate, but I decided to try…
July 9, 2007
Estero by Starlight
Estero by Starlight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A recent hike along the Estero Trail in Point Reyes ending in night: starlight on Drakes Estero. Venus was…
July 9, 2007
Estero at Low Tide
Estero at Low Tide, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My nephew Peter, a strapping 25-year-old from Minnesota, and my friend Mark and I went for a sunset-to-night…
July 7, 2007
Half Dome Follow-Up
The San Francisco Chronicle ran a front page story today, Danger on the Dome about the dangerous hike up Half Dome in Yosemite. You can read a partial account of…
July 7, 2007
Flower at the Center of the Universe
Flower at the Center of the Universe, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I've called this photo composition Flower at the Center of the Universe. To create the…
July 7, 2007
Star Vortex
Star Vortex, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a very long time exposure taken from the top of Half Dome. It was around 1AM. I pointed…
July 6, 2007
White Balance and the RAW Landscape
Mark and I went back out to Arch Rock last night. It was a little earlier than my last hike out there, so I was able to work my way…
July 6, 2007