digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
The special characteristics of light at sunset---first the "golden hour," followed by the "blue hour"---are well known to all serious landscape photographers. Indeed, the quality of the light and the…
The Bramante Stairs is a double helix staircase, meaning it consists of two independent helical stairs in the same vertical space, allowing one person to ascend and another to descend, without…
This field has been plowed. It is autumn, and the land is bare, waiting in lengthy passivity for the new crops of spring to begin to show. The patterns in…
It's my personality for my "eyes to be bigger than my stomach," my artistic ego to be large, and my ability to say no to a possible photo nil regardless…
Visiting the Vatican Museum is an affair of moving with and through crowds. Most are in densely packed "schools of fish" (in tour groups). Others lumber slowly, couples or small…
From the tower hanging above the central piazza in the Tuscan hill town of Montepulciano, I heard lucid guitar chords rising on the wind. I looked down to find the musician.…
Rising not quite with the sun, on my way over to the breakfast room, I saw the landscape below with patches of fog, a veritable pattern of lights and darks,…
The Dolomites, in northeastern Italy, are a spectacular range of pinnacles forming the southern reaches of the Alps. These mountains have characteristically grand rock formations, and if you like landscape…
The ancient Lombard city of Pavia lies on the Ticino River near its confluence with the Po. Pavia is about twenty miles south of Milan. A long time ago, Pavia…
I've been in Italy only a couple of days, and already it seems like there have been some incredible adventures (but not much sleep). This morning I woke in the…
On a sunny and warm early spring day I explored Toulouse in southwestern France. Heading down to the Garonne River, I found the banks occupied by university students enjoying the…
This is an image I made earlier this year outside the wonderful Saint-Sulpice in Paris as day faded to night (see this earlier story, also this one, and also this…
I have some new images in my Multple Exposures series, photographed in collaboration with the beautiful and intelligent model Katje Gee.
This is a succulent from our front porch. I brought it inside, and photographed it straight down on a black velvet background. My thought was that it looked rounded like…
Two new tote bags have been added to the Harold Davis Vida Collection. The Geostationary Orbit and Edge of Night tote bags are made in California. Each retails for $55.00.…
This farmhouse down east in Maine struck me as quintessentially chic-shabby, or in Lewis Caroll's turn of phrase, "sweetly picturesque in rags." Not that there are any rags in view,…
This is an in-camera multiple exposure from Battery Spencer of the Golden Gate Bridge. There were five exposures overall. Each exposure was five seconds in duration. For the first three…
I've really, really wanted to create textiles from some of my floral images, so I am pleased and excited to show the Harold Davis collection of scarves and wraps (and…