Venice Perspective
At the tip of Dorsoduro, the Venetian Quarter across the Grand Canal from San Marco, sits the Dogana di Mare. The Dogana di Mare is a colonnaded customs station built…
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November 17, 2015
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Burano
My friend Mauro and I took the vaporetto across the fog-bound Venice lagoon to Burano. Just like a trip to a remote part of a city served by an on-land…
November 14, 2015
Venice of Dreams
Coming into Venice after a long day on the train from Naples was a dream-like experience. From southern almost summer time I was transported into an early November dark world…
November 12, 2015
Antipasto
I had this mixed antipasto at Campagnola, a classic Neapolitan trattoria in the heart of old Naples. The dish was incredibly delicious. Words simply cannot describe the sensuous lusciousness of…
November 4, 2015
Coming into Naples
Coming into Naples, an incredible snarl of traffic. This is take-no-prisoners driving, and really kind of fun to watch in a madcap way. Particularly since it wasn't me driving. We…
November 3, 2015
Harold in Italy
How amazing it is to leave California in the afternoon, transit through an airline haze of mediocre movies and reading materials, and more-or-less the next morning to arrive in Italy!…
October 28, 2015
Photograph Paris in the Spring
If not now, when? What about the May 1 - May 7 2016 destination photography workshop, Photograph Paris with Harold Davis in the Springtime? If I am not for myself, who…
October 21, 2015
Discount Codes for Topaz Labs Creative Landscape Photography with Harold Davis Webinar
I'm appreciative that Topaz Labs allowed me to present my landscape photography in a webinar, and also to explain some of the techniques I use. One of the neat things…
October 20, 2015
Special Harold Davis Print Offer
It's time for holiday giving---or for a great present for yourself! We are offering four prints of my most iconic images. Each print is hand-crafted in my studio using archival…
October 19, 2015
Workshop: Get Your Camera Off Auto
Full Day Workshop: Get Your Camera Off Automatic with Harold Davis Have you always wanted to take fantastic photos, but somehow they never seem to come out as well as you…
October 15, 2015
Digital Pop Art
It's fun sometimes to make the colors really pop, as in this pair of images. The bottom floral, of Gerberas and Crysanthemums, was photographed on a light box. I then…
October 11, 2015
Low Geostationary and Decaying Orbits around the Clematis Inversion
I spent a few days doodling and noodling with flowers, first on the light box for transparency and then with LAB inversions in Photoshop, and Low Geostationary and Decaying Orbits…
October 10, 2015
Free Creative Landscape Photography Webinar Sponsored by Topaz
Please join me for a free Creative Landscape Photography webinar sponsored by Topaz Labs. The webinar is free, but seats are limited, and pre-registration is required. The webinar session is…
October 7, 2015
Quartet of iPhone Photos
The occasion of my purchase of a new iPhone 6s (for the camera of course and not for the mere love of idle but novel gadgetry made in the slave-labor…
October 5, 2015
Autumn Arbor at the Bussaco Palace
As October begins and the year inches toward autumn, I thought it was appropriate to share this image, photographed early on a foggy morning on the grounds of the Bussaco…
October 2, 2015
Ringing Cedars Covers
Of all the assignments in my photography career, one of the ones I am proudest of is the cover imagery for the second edition of the Ringing Cedar Series in…
September 29, 2015
Persistence of Personal Vision
I've been struck on a number of occasions how the same elements in a scene interest me photographically, even after a gap of many years. Returning to a mountainside in…
September 28, 2015