digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Orchid Water Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I recently bought a Nikon Close-up Speedlight Remote Kit to try out adding flash capabilities to my macro repertoire.…
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The Dahlia is a wonderful flower. It's elegant, almost baroque, and at the same time somehow simple. If a rose is…
Luminous Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The saying goes, "There's more than one way to skin a cat." Although why you'd want to skin a cat,…
Here I Am, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. My delight in photographing water drops continues. Someone on Flickr suggested that one of these days I'd morph into…
Sun Catcher, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. When I take one of these extreme close-up high depth-of-field water drop images, it's really hard to see what the…
Water of Life, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is one of my favorite of the water drop series I've been working on lately. Taken at sunrise…
Kiss Me, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Like the highway sign in Steve Martin's movie about Los Angeles that in no uncertain terms tells Steve to "kiss…
Dandelion, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. In the great flower versus weed controversy, the oxalis gets my vote as a flower while the dandelion is clearly a…
Ferraria Crispa, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this flower the other day in the South Africa section of the U.C. Berkeley Botanical Garden. It is…
Good Morning Sun!, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this water drop with my 200mm macro lens early one morning this week. It was very nice…
Yellow and Blue Flowers, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I intentionally selected this clump of blue flowers with yellow flowers in the background, with the idea the…
Drops on a Peony Leaf, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Here's another photo showing that the peony has beautiful parts besides its flowers. An extreme magnification, from…
Peony Parade, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Sunlight and water drops on my tree peony flower: what a glorious subject to photograph!
Peony Revelation 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I was surprised to see the core of the peony resolving itself within my viewfinder. This is a tree…
Abstract Peony 3, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a fairly abstract photo of the stem of a peony. I was experimenting with attaching both an…
Wind, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this California poppy surrounded by blue flowers today in a high wind. I've mentioned before the wisdom of making…
White Flower, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This small white flower sits in a shady corner of my garden. It gives off a vague odor of garlic,…
Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This photograph in very close of a Dalia outside our kitchen window interests me because of its three-dimensionality. I didn't really…