Yosemite at Night
On a balmy autumn night in early November I treated myself to a good dinner at the Yosemite Lodge restaurant. Then I headed out into the Yosemite Valley night with…
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November 16, 2011
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
This is an image of a thresher, a machine used in farming. A threshing machine separates grains from stalks and husks, or---as the saying goes---separates the wheat from the chaff.…
November 15, 2011
Within the Web
To make this image, first I needed one wet spider web with a colorful background. The web I found is shown in a somewhat more conventional image in Wet Web.…
November 14, 2011
Alabama Hills Sunset
This is a sequence of four capures made looking east from the Alabama Hills towards the Panamint Range and Death Valley, combined into a single HDR shot. Exposure data: 17mm,…
November 12, 2011
Saline Valley Star Circles
About fifty miles down the desolate Saline Valley road, one valley to the west of Death Valley, as the sun set, I stopped to camp for the night. I set…
November 10, 2011
Eureka Dunes
At the end of a remote valley in the northwest corner of Death Valley you'll find the Eureka Dunes. At close to 700 feet tall, these are probably the tallest…
November 9, 2011
Pfeiffer Beach by Moonlight
View this image larger. This is a two minute exposure by bright moonlight diffused through a layer of clouds taken at Pfeiffer Beach in Big Sur, California. For this image…
October 31, 2011
Rocks, Weston Beach
Looking straight down at the rock formation at Edward Weston Beach in the Point Lobos State Reserve, near Carmel, CA, I was struck how the rock formation looked like a…
October 29, 2011
The City is the Cheese
This is a view of downtown San Francisco across the Marin Headlands from West Point Inn on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais. I shot the photo in 2010, late in…
October 28, 2011
Web Architecture
When I drop Katie Rose off at Step One, the area around her pre-school is often in the clouds, with drops of water clinging to flora---and spider webs. The other…
October 25, 2011
Intricate Detail of Nature’s Perfection
My image, Intricate Detail of Nature's Perfection (shown above), was a winner in the 2011 North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) contest. Today (October 24, 2011) Intricate Detail graces the…
October 24, 2011
Fog on the Coast
The sun was battling the fog, with the line of the coast the demilitarized zone. First the fog bank standing out to sea would ride in, covering the shore. Then…
October 21, 2011
Succulent
Briefly noted: I shot this succulent in the gardens at Esalen using my 85mm Nikon PC-E Micro-Nikkor f/2.8D tilt-shift macro lens. A tilt-shift lens helps correct lines of perspective when…
October 19, 2011
Bamboo
Sometimes simple is best. I worked hard to achieve simplicity in these images of Bamboo, cut from a variegated plant around the corner from where I live. It is well-known…
October 13, 2011
Glass Spiral
Glass Spiral, photo by Harold Davis. The image above was shot through a magnifying lens straight down on a turned-over glass. You can see a bit more of the magnification…
October 12, 2011
Sweet Melancholy
There's nothing like watching rain from inside where it is warm and dry to usher in feelings of sweet melancholy. Yesterday, a warm and gentle rain fell like a curtain…
October 11, 2011
Scabiosa Pods and Fern
Possibly I am obsessed. The same set of shooting and post-production techniques that work to make imagery of glassware look something like antique drawings also work on ferns and seed…
October 9, 2011
Sun and Waterdrops
The day started with a massive downpour. Then there was a sunny interlude before the rain began again. Things continued in this intermittent vein. I took advantage of a lull…
October 6, 2011