Best Of Botanicals: National Juried Photography Exhibition A Benefit for San Francisco Botanical Garden Call for entries. Entries are due: April 3, 2014 From classical to contemporary, from desert to rain forest, from bud to decay, the natural form…
Update: This adventure is sold out! Thanks for your interest. I am very, very excited to announce that registration is now open for the Photographic Caravan to Spain and Morocco…
I have been thinking about square compositions, for example, with these Nautilus Shells. So why not create some square versions of my light box flowers? This is actually harder from…
I've been photographing split Nautilus shells yesterday and today, these make such lovely spirals. Check out the monochrome version first: It's hard to think of another still life subject that…
To make this image, I photographed two split halves of a Nautilus shell on a mirror placed on a black velvet background. I lit the composition using natural light and…
I shot this photo of tulips in a crowd with my new Otus. Otus's more formal designation is the Otus 1.4/55, and is, in the words of the manufacturer Zeiss, quite…
I have only two spots left in the Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop this coming weekend (Feb 22-23, 2014) here in Berkeley, California. This is an opportunity to photograph your…
This tulip panorama was shot on a light box in three segments. Each segment is made up of six exposures, so there are eighteen exposures in all. In post-production, first…
I have been working on a series of Tulip imagery that I shot almost a year ago, and haven't had the time to process before now. These were shot on…
It's perfectly legal in this country to cultivate the Opium Poppy, Papaver somniferum, for decorative purposes. But this pretty flower, shown in the image below, has long caused wild dreams…
I shot this image last year during a night photography session with my Paris photography workshop. Paris is a great city to photograph at night, with many opportunities for dramatic…
Here's my red flowering quince shot, with the moon in an alternate position. Good argument for archiving one's layers unflattened---that way it is easy to go back and move the…
Waking up just before dawn in the small Japanese village of Chikatsuyu (see bottom image), I threw my clothes on and hurried out with my camera. There were pockets of…
The following short review of Monochromatic HDR Photography appears in the January 2014 issue of Rangefinder Magazine (page 32): Monochromatic HDR Photography By Harold Davis Among his multifarious skills---photographer, author,…
The red flowering quince are particularly gorgeous this year in my neighborhood, and I can't resist putting some of them on my light box. These flowers have a simple elegance…
My friend Hermann Will of Fine Art Printer Magazine sent me a snapshot, shown here on Facebook, of my Red Poppies print on kozo washi at the Awagami exhibit in…
There are only a few spaces remaining in the February 22-23, 2014 Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop here in Berkeley, Ca. Don't miss this unique opportunity! As one participant in the 2013…
Heading into Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, my idea was to practice HDR photography on the vaulted ceiling of the church. I had done this once before in Grace Cathedral,…