The Road Goes Ever On and On
Road, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Rain, rain, rain! It's raining here today in the Pacific monsoon way it has here on the, well, Pacific rim. So…
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December 19, 2005
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Me and My Shadow
Me and My Shadow, photo by Harold Davis. View this tiny tiny sugar ant larger. In this wet and rainy weather, the sugar ants invade our house. Looking, I guess,…
December 18, 2005
Monster Art Nouveau Lens Baby Orchid Macro
Orchid Detail VII, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I'm just so in love with these orchids, as I've said it is a slippery slope. I don't want…
December 17, 2005
Fog Bank
Fog Bank, photo by Harold Davis. View this image large. A wider angle view of yesterday's sunset and fog bank, also from upper Euclid in the Berkeley Hills.
December 16, 2005
Geometry of Sun, Fog, and Bridge
Geometry of Sun, Fog, and Bridge, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. What I find most interesting about this photo is the way the water in the Bay…
December 16, 2005
Poppy Central
Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. "This stop poppy central! All aboard!" I photographed this icelandic poppy in Julian's garden. (Julian, my eight year old son, has…
December 15, 2005
The Orchid’s Moustache
Orchid Detail V, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. This photo of an orchid reminds me of a man with a moustache and a big. colorful hat. I…
December 15, 2005
Orchid Angel
Orchid Detail III, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. As I noted recently, orchids are a slipperly slope and tender trap. I went to Berkeley Hort with my…
December 14, 2005
The Orchid Trap
Cymbidium, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. In John Le Carre spy novels from the Cold War era, a Honey Trap meant an attractive snare. The original of…
December 14, 2005
Reflections
World in the Lake, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. The end of the year is a time for contemplation and reflection. And resolutions for the new year.…
December 13, 2005
Sunsets and the Bay
City Sunset, Clouds, and Bridges, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Lately I've been photographing sunsets over the San Francisco Bay from my various eyries in the Berkeley…
December 12, 2005
As Images Go By
Orchid, photo by Harold Davis. View this flower larger. I'm not always that good at picking my best photos in real time. When I take a photo, I usually know…
December 12, 2005
Bay Sunset Silhouette
Bay Sunset Silhouette, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger! It's hard to know how to frame the whole wide Bay. An extreme wide-angle, like this fish-eye shot, can…
December 12, 2005
Sunset Over San Francisco
Sunset Over San Francisco, photo by Harold Davis. View this sunset larger. Julian and I went over to Indian Rock for sunset. Julian insisted we climb the rock that doesn't…
December 11, 2005
Sniffing the Chocolate Cosmos
Chocolate Cosmos Bud 2, photo by Harold Davis. Click to view larger. I picked Nicky up at pre-school on Friday, and asked him what he wanted to do with me.…
December 10, 2005
Lights of the City
Lights of Bridge and East Bay, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. The lights of the bridge and city had come on, and it was getting cold. I…
December 9, 2005
Brilliance of Venus
Brilliance of Venus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Venus is large and brilliant this month. Here in the Bay area, you can see Venus towards the SSW…
December 8, 2005
What about the Tooth Fairy?
Loose Tooth, photo by Harold Davis. As you can see, Julian has a very loose tooth. He's very proud of it, and quite excited by it. The other day as…
December 8, 2005