My Night Photos on Nikon
City Dreams, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Read the original story featuring this image. Night Lights, a story about my night photography, is running on the Nikon…
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December 23, 2009
digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Solstice Sunset
Stinson Beach Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A virtue of the short days of winter is that one doesn't have to wait long for sunset. This…
December 22, 2009
Escape from the Shadows
Escape from the Shadows, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A few weeks ago there was a freak snowstorm in the coastal hills above Berkeley and Oakland, California.…
December 21, 2009
Havana Waterfront
Havana Waterfront, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I desaturated this image of waves battering the Malecon along the Havana waterfront, and also added some virtual grain, to…
December 19, 2009
Water Drop Crossing
Water Drop Crossing, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These two images of blades of grass wet with raindrops illustrate a digital solution to a technical photographic problem…
December 16, 2009
La Vie En Rose
La Vie En Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. If you look at this Photoshop composite, the building blocks I used to create it may not be…
December 15, 2009
Straight Shot
Straight Shot, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This decorative central shaft presents a straight shot up to a skylight in the Edificio Cuervo Rubio---a stunning art deco…
December 15, 2009
Curves
Curves, photo by Harold Davis.View this image larger. Here's another, somewhat softer version of my variegated rose.
December 14, 2009
Puente Bacunayagua
Puente Bacunayagua, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On the highway between the tourist beach enclaves of Veradero and the gritty provincial capital of Matanzas to the east,…
December 12, 2009
Stair Knot
Stair Knot, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I should think it would be puzzling to be caught on this staircase---a giant knot apparently suspended in space with…
December 10, 2009
Study of a Twisted Stair
Study of a Twisted Stair, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. If the perspective in this Photoshop Darkroom creation seems twisted, well, it should. Here's the original twisted…
December 9, 2009
Coastal Range Snow
Coastal Range Snow, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It rained most of the night, and towards morning got cold enough to snow at the crest of the…
December 7, 2009
Structure of Rose
Structure of Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As flowers go, roses tend to present interesting three-dimensional curvilinear spaces. Looking head-on at a rose is different in…
December 7, 2009
Hemingway and Cuba
This cougar head occupies a place of honor in Papa Hemingway’s dressing area at the Hemingway Museum in the suburbs of Havana, Cuba. Photo by Harold Davis. View this image…
December 5, 2009
Point Bonita by Moonlight
Point Bonita by Moonlight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. By the strong light of a waxing gibbous moon I photographed the outer Marin Headlands coast, looking south…
December 4, 2009
Butterfly Prize
Wings of Man, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. My image Wings of Man (above) has won second prize in the NABA (North American Butterfly Association) 2009 art…
December 3, 2009
Wave
Ninth Wave, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I went over to the Marin coast on a day with a high surf warning. There was wind, too. I…
December 2, 2009
Cienfeugos Sunset
Cienfeugos Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These two images were captured from the seventh floor balcony of the Hotel Jagua in Cienfeugos, Cuba. Cienfeugos is a…
December 1, 2009