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Gazania Petals, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. A French reader of Photoblog 2.0 asks some good questions that you, too, might want answered if you are new…
White Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I'm pleased to present this triptych of poppy photos: white, red, and yellow. These flowers are all on one poppy…
Young Leucospermum Profile, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. This is the leucospermum "scarlet ribbons" plant in my garden that I photographed earlier from above. This photo shows…
Garden in a Water Drop, photo by Harold Davis. To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm…
Flower Tears, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Do flowers weep? Are rain drops tears from the sky? Or does the flower petal embrace the drops of rain…
Snapdragon's Secret, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. There's a secret at the heart of every flower, including this snapdragon in my garden...
Fire of Passion in the Cherry Heart, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I photographed cherry blossoms today along Thousand Oaks near our home. These are photomacrographs, but…
Pansy, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I took this photo because the unexpected angle interested me. It's not how one usually expects to see these flowers. The…
Ranunculus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Along with an idealized (and often false) perfection in nature photography, we look for something we can relate to. That's why…
Imperfection, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Why do we expect our great photographs of nature to show perfection? The truth is that nature is rarely perfect. Human…
Wet Flower, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. When the weather is bright and sunny, as it is today, it seems like it will always be bright and…
Fire in the Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger The other day I was taking care of the kids when I noticed fire in the sky. Not…
Cherry Blossom Special, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. The cherry trees are starting to bloom in our neighborhood, although exactly which trees in our coastal zone depends…
Stars Like Diamonds, photo by Harold Davis. View this photomacrograph larger. Yesterday after the rain had ended I went out with my rig. I stopped along the outer fence of…
Mathew in a Tunnel, photo by Harold Davis. We got out the Ikea play tent for Mathew, and he and I spent some time crawling through the tunnel. Great fun!…
Helleborus in the Rain, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I photographed this simple, innocent, child-like flower, with its raindrop for an eye, as part of the same…
I photographed the sun, and did not blink. No King Canute, who tried to stop the waves but the waves wouldn't listen, this project worried me. The sun is more…
Water World, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. In brief: this photomacrograph is up close of the leaves of a flowering plant with water drops. It's so close…