Dahlia Days
Red Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Dahlias are interesting me lately. I love their symmetry, flamboyance, and elegance. I photographed this red dwarf dahlia head-on with…
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June 13, 2006
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White Rose
White Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. A white rose is a potent symbol. A symbol of what? Perhaps of love, purity, and chastity. But historically the…
June 12, 2006
Heart Like a Mallow
Heart Like a Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Mallows are annuals or perennials of the Malvaceae family. Spreading from their origins in Southern Europe, they've given…
June 12, 2006
Wet Dahlia
Wet Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. How lucious to come downstairs and see everything setup for a Father's Day celebration! Even though they were a week…
June 11, 2006
A Classical Zinnia
Zinnia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is another photograph using classical techniques (like this delphinium): tripod mounted, high depth-of-field, moderately long exposure, head-on point-of-view. (If you…
June 11, 2006
Songbird
Songbird, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a columbine, called a Songbird Columbine, that I photographed today in classical mode using a long macro lens, high…
June 9, 2006
More Water Drops
Begonia Reflection, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a water drop at the bottom of the hanging begonia basket that I got Phyllis for Mother's Day.…
June 9, 2006
Blind Shadow
Blind Shadow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The late afternoon sun streams in strongly through my windows that face northwest at this time of year. I shut…
June 8, 2006
Sunshine and Water Drops
Sunshine and Water Drops on a Papaver Stem, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed these water drops on a poppy stem backlit by the early morning…
June 7, 2006
What is a Photographer?
Death Valley Sunrise 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I originally blogged this photograph here. In the 1980s, when I was a photographer based in New York…
June 7, 2006
Lost in the Funhouse
Lost in the Funhouse, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's very hard with a photo like this water drop on my leucospermum to see what one is…
June 7, 2006
Poppy in the Sun
Poppy in the Sun, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this poppy early this morning in my garden. It is a papaver somniferum, or opium poppy,…
June 6, 2006
Noon a Purple Glow
Noon a Purple Glow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I named this photo using a line from a William Butler Yeats poem Lake Isle of Innisfree (the…
June 5, 2006
Irrigation
Irrigation 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Having spent a great deal of time observing water drops up close and personal, I am firmly convinced that water…
June 4, 2006
White Mallow
White Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I was caught up in photographing the spiral deep inside a pink mallow. Then I looked up and noticed this…
June 3, 2006
Spiral in a Mallow
Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a photograph at fairly high magnification (about 8:1) of an annual Mallow flower, Lavatera trimestris. I photographed it today…
June 2, 2006
Even the Miwok Names Are Forgotten
Yan-o-pah, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Every view in Yosemite Valley has probably been photographed, and most views more than once. The famous vistas have been photographed…
May 31, 2006
Sock Nectar
Butterflies on a Sock above Vernal Falls, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. After climbing the Mist Trail, we were thoroughly soaked. The great rock platform on top…
May 31, 2006