digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
OK, so things here are weird today. If the pandemic and putrid politics of hate weren't bad enough---today we are living in twilight, enveloped by darkness. You'd think it was…
My idea with these yellow (actually, close to orange) peppers was to create a lattice composition on the light box. The lattice should be arranged so that it had a…
These two images show virtual flowers constructed on my light box from thin slices of root vegetables. The Chiogga Beet slices have been cut vertically, as opposed to the horizontal…
In parts of the Caribbean, edible root vegetables are often called "ground provisions." Yesterday was a ground-provisions day. I primarily photographed beets and radishes. This is a continuation of my…
Just like the aggregation of pear slices, it is possible to create interesting melanges of all kinds of sliced fruits and vegetables. The sliced kiwi fruits (below) remind me of…
Traditionally, a mandala is a geometric shape that symbolically represents the cosmos or the universe, or perhaps a search for unity and completeness within oneself. I always enjoy creating mandalas,…
Where do ideas come from? In the case of these translucent fruit slices, an art consultant showed me an image of translucent fruit. I immediately thought of photographing fruit slices…
The upper photo is an X-Ray of a bouquet of dahlias, nemesia, and kangaroo paw flowers. It was made in May, 2019 using medical x-ray equipment, and processed yesterday while…
Sometimes it is really fun to line up a whole collection of objects in a grid on my light box, not worrying too much about fancy compositional issues. Take, for…
My Dahlia bed is starting to bloom, providing some very sweet subjects for solo flower portraits!
A while back, in the pre-pandemic era, I visited the International Car Forest of the Last Church. This so-called "Car Forest" is more like a car garden than a forest.…
In some ways, layers define the landscape at large. When a landscape consists of layers stretching out to the distant horizon, the details become abstracted, and we can imagine ourselves…
We're pleased to kick-off our Saturday webinar series on Saturday August 15, 2020 with Intimate Flowers! What: Intimate Flowers with Harold Davis When: Saturday, August 15, 2020 at 11am PT.…
Wabi-Sabi Mandala was constructed---mostly---using the blossoms from Flowers from our Pandemic Garden, with the addition of some time passing. "Wabi-sabi" is the rendition of a Japanese concept (侘寂) indicating the…
It was great fun yesterday to construct and photograph this light box composition. The dahlias are the first from my new dahlia raised bed on the southwest side of the…
Phyllis and I are very excited to announce a new series of Saturday webinars! We hope to see you there. Intimate Flowers on Saturday, August 15, 2020: August is here!…
To register for the Multi-RAW processing webinar on July 30, please click here. Please check out our other live webinar offerings by clicking here. When it comes to digital photography,…
Click here for our complete list of currently scheduled webinars! The Solace of Nature: William Neill and Harold Davis | Free Webinar Presentation When: Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 11am…