Point Reyes Lighthouse
Point Reyes Lighthouse, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The sun setting way out over the Pacific, I took this image with a tripod stopped down for maximum…
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February 2, 2007
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Winter Sea
Winter Sea, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Julian had no school on Monday, so we headed out to Point Reyes to watch whales and take some photos.…
February 1, 2007
Papaver and Shadow
Papaver and Shadow, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. At first glance, one might think this image is a Photoshop composite of a black-and-white image and a color…
January 30, 2007
Spirals
Spirals, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This image is a composite created in Photoshop of one of the spiral staircase images from 2 Embarcadero and an image…
January 29, 2007
Nautilus on Black
Nautilus on Black 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This version of the Nautilus shell uses Photoshop to combine a digital photograph with a high-resolution flat-bed scan…
January 29, 2007
Wood between the Worlds
Wood between the Worlds, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a Photoshop composite put together with layers and masking from Big Sticks and Water and Meditation.…
January 27, 2007
Nautilus 69
Nautilus 69, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photograph of a mildly Photoshopped nautilus shell combined with a rotated version of itself. The mild Photoshopping…
January 27, 2007
Cyclamen
Cyclamen, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I like this extreme close-up of a cyclamen flower for its abstraction and graphic simplicity. True, it may never knock anyone's…
January 26, 2007
Mount Diablo and the Foothills
Mount Diablo and the Foothills, photo by Harold Davis. Protected with PIXSY . On Christmas Day 2006 the coastal range was bathed in clouds that made the scene look like…
January 25, 2007
Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?
Light at the End of the Tunnel?, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Like World without End and Endless Stairs, I created this image by pasting in reduced…
January 24, 2007
Tennessee Beach
Tennessee Beach 4, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Obviously, Tennessee Beach is a place of great beauty. A more-or-less flat trail down Tennessee Valley takes you to…
January 23, 2007
Double Hellebore Blossom
Double Hellebore Blossom, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the first blossom of the hybrid double hellebore plants I got last autumn from Barry Glick, the…
January 21, 2007
Vertigo
Cove with No Name, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger I'm not much given to fear of heights. But taking this picture made me feel a bit queezy…
January 20, 2007
Magnificent Marin Headlands
Tennessee Beach, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Here's a broader view of Tennessee Beach looking south which shows, I think, the magnificence of the Marin Headlands landscape.…
January 20, 2007
Tennessee Beach Looking South
Tennessee Beach Looking South, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photograph from Tennessee Beach looking across the Golden Gate at the sunset lights of South…
January 19, 2007
Wet Gazania
Wet Gazania, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Yesterday in the bright sunshine I photographed this gazania and its water drops. There's something about a wet and well-lit…
January 18, 2007
Golden Gate Sunset
Golden Gate Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Yesterday afternoon after days and nights of clear, cold, wonderful clarity there were magnificent clouds in the sunset sky.…
January 17, 2007
From Filter Play to Layer Masking
Transamerica Reflections, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Ever since I started working with digital photos, I've used Photoshop's tools to create entirely new imagery from my photography.…
January 16, 2007