Do You Know the Way?
San Jose from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Jack was kind enough to come with me for another night hike up the beast, Mission Peak.…
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June 12, 2007
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Creature of the Night
(or, the Were-Photographer)
Point Reyes from Arch Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. With all the night photography I've been doing lately, I've begun to feel a bit like a…
June 11, 2007
Twilight Turns to Night
Night Shore 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Looking south from Arch Rock the twilight turned to night. Individual stars turned to the star-filled night sky and…
June 9, 2007
Renegade Remaining Photons
South from Arch Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I left home after dinner. It took me a bit more than an hour to drive to the…
June 8, 2007
Night Shore
Night Shore 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 180 second time exposure from Arch Rock in Point Reyes looking northwest up the coast towards…
June 6, 2007
White California Poppy
White California Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I'm used to thinking of the California poppy as a wonderful red-and-orange ragamuffin that grows along our roads almost…
June 5, 2007
Will You Be My Lensbaby?
What has a flexible rubberized tube, like a short version of the hose you find on a vacuum cleaner, and a piece of optical glass at the end? Why, my…
June 5, 2007
Hummingbird Tongue
Hummingbird Tongue, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The kids were all dropped off at school. It was Monday morning. Phyllis and I were sitting in our kitchen…
June 4, 2007
Dream Path
Dream Path, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the full night, with fog whistling through the Eucalyptus grove, I exposed for eighty seconds. It seemed to me…
June 4, 2007
Eucalyptus Grove in the Fog
Eucalyptus Grove in the Fog, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We've been living under a cloud cover in the San Francisco Bay area for the last week,…
June 1, 2007
Tennessee Valley by Moonlight
Tennessee Valley by Moonlight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 210 second exposure of the grasses along Tennessee Valley by moon and star light (with…
June 1, 2007
Point Reyes Lighthouse
Point Reyes Lighthouse, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Here's another version of the Point Reyes Lighthouse after sunset, this one a thirty second exposure that shows the…
May 31, 2007
Physical Prints in a Virtual World
When I came back to photography in early 2005, I confronted a world gone digital and virtual. On the whole, I thought this was a good thing, and I was…
May 31, 2007
Wide-Angle Hydrangea
Hydrangea Sheila, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of a designer Hydrangea, Hydrangea Sheila, one of the so-called "Dutch Ladies" created by Dutch plantsman…
May 30, 2007
Tamalpais from Mission Peak
Tamalpais from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This view looks north from the summit of Mission Peak. Mission Boulevard points in a straight line towards…
May 29, 2007
Return of the Drama Queen
Return of the Drama Queen, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a Drama Queen Poppy, Papaver somniferum, that reseeded itself in my garden. I bought the…
May 28, 2007
Above the Urban Sprawl
Above the Urban Sprawl, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo from the summit of Mission Peak looks north past Hayward up the San Francisco Bay. Depending…
May 28, 2007
Improv on Mission Peak
Diablo from Mission Peak, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Jack invited me on a hike up Mission Peak, along with his friend Eric. The plan was to…
May 27, 2007