Architectonica Spiral
Commonly called the Sundial shell, Architectonica is small. The specimen shown in this photo is probably less than an inch across. Turn the shell over, and there's a tiny spiral…
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March 21, 2012
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
New prints from Harold Davis
I am writing this story to let you know about an exciting new development. Thanks to new advanced technology, I am now able to create hand-crafted images up to 44 x 72 inches, printing them on…
March 19, 2012
Pigeon Point Lighthouse
On my way home from photographing in the University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum I drove up the spectacular San Mateo coast (south of San Francisco). I reached the Pigeon…
March 18, 2012
Harold Davis Postcard Books
We are very pleased to announce that Cameron + Company has released three postcard books of my work. Each of the three postcard books each contain twenty detachable postcards. They are…
March 15, 2012
Cable Car Wheels
Wandering downtown San Francisco with two photographic companions we decided to visit the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. This turned out to be a great location for monochromatic HDR photography.…
March 11, 2012
Natural Jewelry
If you've been following my blog or my Flickr stream you may have noticed more than the usual proportion of extreme macro shots involving waterdrops. Well, I do love shooting…
March 8, 2012
Ginger Leaf
On a walk around the block with the kids yesterday I saw this translucent wild ginger leaf. I snipped it, brought it home, and shot it on my lightbox. This…
March 4, 2012
Craft of Black & White in the Digital Era
Monochromatic photography looks back to the glorious aesthetics of the classical era of film photography. At the same time, the world has moved on and revolutionary advances in technology have made…
February 26, 2012
Flowering Quince on My “Bucket List”
Most photographers have bucket lists of things they'd like to photograph before they die. Flowering quince---because of the lushness of the blossoms contrasted with the sparseness of the stems--has long…
February 19, 2012
Floral Arrangements
I've had a little time lately to shoot more flowers on white. These two floral arrangements feature orchids---buying them for photography seemed a little expensive at the time, but in…
February 5, 2012
You Are What You Photograph
Are you what you photograph? They say, "You are what you eat." In a certain simplisitic sense this is obviously true. Therefore, if you photograph what you eat then you…
January 16, 2012
Getting Off Automatic
As a professional photographer I almost always use my camera in manual exposure mode. Most of the time I have no use for programmed automatic or semi-automatic modes---or, God forbid, one…
January 13, 2012
Floral Tapestries
To create these images, I arranged flowers on a lightbox that was proportionally much wider than it was tall. Next, I shot straight down with a macro lens, bracketing for…
January 8, 2012
Workbench
Over the winter holidays I took our boys on a "field trip" to Fort Ross State Historic Park. Fort Ross marks the furthest point south of the expansion of the…
January 6, 2012
Sunset Koan
On Christmas Day I calculated that from the summit of Wildcat Peak the sun would set directly behind the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge. This seemed like a great excuse…
December 28, 2011
Paperwhite Waterdrops
The Paperwhite, Narcissus papyraceus, is a small white flower related to the Daffodil. Grown from a bulb, the plant is originally from the Mediterranean basin. It's commonly thought of as…
December 18, 2011
The eye believes what it thinks it sees
The eye believes what it thinks it sees. This allows us to enjoy magic shows, movies, and two-dimensional art such as painting and photography. Any two-dimensional representation of three dimensions…
December 14, 2011
Self-Portrait in Faucet
We've had a spate of minor---but surprisingly expensive---plumbing repairs recently. I took advantage of one of these to shoot our new kitchen faucet with my 200mm macro lens. Who knew…
December 9, 2011