Mirror Lake
Mirror Lake, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's a gentle one-mile stroll on a paved path to Mirror Lake, at the head of the valley made by…
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July 1, 2006
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Fairae Lights
Poppy Revealed, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The luminous effect in these photos is reasonably easy to achieve---and has nothing to do with Photoshop. It is a…
June 30, 2006
Death in Bodie
Death in Bodie, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. They're dying to get into Bodie, a ghost town east of the Sierras in the high desert. Here are…
June 30, 2006
Echinacea Water Drop
Echinacea Water Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This water drop, on a hybrid coneflower ( Echinacea Big Sky "Sunset") has obviously been highly magnified. I used…
June 29, 2006
Botany of Desire
Day Lily 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. OK, so I've "borrowed" Michael Pollan's excellent title for this story. These photos are of day lilies. The subject…
June 28, 2006
My Garden Fence
My Garden Fence, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The appearance of a reflection is made by the subject matter reflected---and by the direction of the light that…
June 27, 2006
Trapped
Trapped, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. We think of flowers as so beautiful. (Of course, they are!) "Colorful," "soft", and, yes "feminine," are words that sometimes seem…
June 27, 2006
Beyond the Visible
Indian Paintbrush, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's fairly well known that digital sensors are more sensitive to infrared (IR) than either film or the human eye.…
June 25, 2006
Orange Rose
Orange Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's the details that make this photo for me (you may have to view it larger to see them). For…
June 25, 2006
High Dive
High Dive, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Everyone slept relatively late this morning, and when I came downstairs with the kids the last of the soft morning…
June 23, 2006
Beneath the Dahlia
Beneath the Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. We are trained to view flowers by looking down at them. Or, on occasion, at the level of the…
June 21, 2006
Lobelia Drop
Lobelia Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I took this photograph of a water drop on a lobelia with my 105mm macro lens handheld at 1/60 of…
June 20, 2006
Hard-Working Feet at Rest
Hard-Working Feet at Rest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Nicky goes full stop until he stops. I couldn't resist this chance to photograph the boy-usually-in-motion at rest…
June 19, 2006
Vernal Falls In Autumn
Vernal Falls In Autumn, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a photograph of Vernal Falls, known as Yan-o-pah by the Miwok, taken in October 2005 on…
June 19, 2006
Dahlia Drops
Dahlia Drop 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It occurred to me to try to solve one of the practical problems I mentioned with extreme macro photography…
June 16, 2006
Rose Heart
Rose Heart, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Here are two roses with water drops from my garden for your viewing pleasure. The rose on top is a…
June 15, 2006
Navigation and a Water Drop
Dalhia Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a photograph of one of a water drop on one of my new dahlia flowers taken with my…
June 14, 2006
Slow Flash
Dahlia Glowing, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. "Slow flash" is an oxymoron because there can be no such thing as a slow flash exposure. A flash duration…
June 13, 2006