Au Sauvignon
Across the street from the hotel and down the block, Au Sauvignon, a modest brasserie offered simple food and seats to watch the world go by. In the back, these…
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May 12, 2013
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
La Tour Eiffel
At night, the area under the Eiffel Tower turns into an exciting display of lights, colors and people---as you can see in this iPhone shot of this small carousel in…
May 3, 2013
Beside the Seine
Amazing that one can leave San Francisco and in one day be photographing in Paris! This is a view of the Seine River from the Ile St Louis in the…
April 22, 2013
Piggyback Waterdrop
The simple pleasures of waterdrop photography can be entrancing, and there is often ample complexity close to home, as in this composition of a waterdrop on a leaf, piggyback on…
April 20, 2013
Keeping in Touch
I wanted to touch base before I leave for France on Sunday. As you likely know, I will be leading a photography workshop in Paris. This is one of my…
April 18, 2013
The Unphotographed Photos
What happens when a photo is a file that languishes in a folder? It may be a little like the tree falling in the forest without recognition. Here are some…
April 18, 2013
New Harold Davis Kickstarter: Monochromatic Visions
We're pleased to announce my new Kickstarter project, Monochromatic Visions. Monochromatic Visions is a highly collectible, limited edition portfolio of twelve prints by master photographer Harold Davis. The Monochromatic Visions portfolio presentation is strictly limited…
April 11, 2013
Smoking Gun
There's one somewhat discordant element in this tableau of a metallurgic assayer's desk, shot at Laws Railroad Museum near Bishop, California. What is the gun doing in the image? According to…
March 29, 2013
Shell Spiral
This is a photo of a very small shell sometimes called a "Sundial" (of the architectonica genus). It is less than an inch across, and shown elsewhere on my blog…
March 26, 2013
Remembering Jack Tasoff
Recently, my friend and photography student Jack Tasoff died in a four-wheel-drive accident in a remote area of the Anza-Borrego desert. I first met Jack a number of years ago.…
March 23, 2013
Botanique on the Moab Paper blog
In "Botanique": Harold Davis's Origami in a Box on the Moab Paper blog you'll find a story about a mystery package. Here's how the story begins: "A mysterious package arrived in our…
March 23, 2013
Making Tracks
There's an almost infinite appeal to me in photographing railroad tracks---appropriately, because the visual metaphor of the railroad track is to show rails that are parallel and never touch. They…
March 23, 2013
Dragon Dawn
In the Anza Borrego desert the hard-scrabble town of Borrego Springs, California loses most of its population in the summer, when temperatures soar and stay above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. One part…
March 22, 2013
What some Botanique collectors have said
Acclaimed as “origami in a box” and said to be “destined for major museums,” Botanique is an innovative artist project that astutely blends old craft and cutting edge new technologies…
March 4, 2013
Creative Effects in the Camera
I guess by now I am notorious for using Photoshop as part of my digital photography. After all, I've described my work as "painting using digital photographs as my medium."…
March 3, 2013
Photographing your kids
Pity the poor children of the shoemaker---who go around perpetually down at their heels. Although photographic projects, clients, flowers and more beckon, such is not the case for my kids when it comes…
February 23, 2013
Floral Sunset
It's hard to imagine two subjects that are more over-photographed than sunsets and flowers. Of course, there's a reason that something is a popular subject for photography. It's wonderful to…
February 21, 2013
The Bristlecone Pines Endure
Above 10,000 feet in the arid White Mountains in eastern California the ancient Bristlecone Pines thrive. In this extreme environment wood decomposes slowly, and these trees can look more dead…
February 19, 2013