Golden Gate Bridge from Hawk Hill
Golden Gate Bridge from Hawk Hill, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. To get to the World War 2 era battlements on Hawk Hill, high on the Marin…
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February 8, 2007
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Camellia Decolletage
Camellia Decolletage, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I really like this close-up of a wet camellia, and I realized that I hadn't blogged it yet. Here's a…
February 7, 2007
Patterns on a Wall
Patterns on a Wall, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The start for this image (above) is a photo of a peeling stucco wall (below). I photographed the…
February 6, 2007
Poppy Scans
Poppy Scan 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These two images are Photoshop composites of high-resolution flatbed scans and conventional macro photos. View this image larger.
February 4, 2007
Pacific Sunset
Pacific Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Sunset. Is it the end of the day, or the beginning of night and the next day? Is a sunset…
February 3, 2007
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…
February 2, 2007
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