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…
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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
Katie Rose in Tiger Paint
Up at Step One, Amber face-painted all the pre-schoolers. Our Katie Rose became a tiger---not inappropriate for someone born with her fierce life force and will to survive. She's also very sweet,…
April 16, 2013
Windswept Sea
Last week I spent some time wandering on Point Reyes with my oldest son Julian (he was off from school for the week). The land and sea were swept by…
April 14, 2013
New $10,000 Stretch Goal for Monochromatic Visions
I'm very excited that our Monochromatic Visions Kickstarter was funded in less than 24 hours! Thanks so very for your support. Because of all the excitement around the Monochromatic Visions portfolio, I’ve added…
April 13, 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
Calypso orchid
Hard to see among the debris at the forest floor, the tiny Calypso orchid can be photographed when conditions are right on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais for brief periods…
April 7, 2013
The infinitesimal and the infinite
I think perhaps that The Incredible Shrinking Man, a 1957 film about a man who shrinks to nothing following an encounter with a radioactive cloud, had an indelible impact on a portion…
April 4, 2013
Living at the border of immensity
I looked out over the vast Arizona plateau leading to the great canyon made by the Colorado Rover. The late autumn sun was setting quickly, creating shadows in the undulating…
April 2, 2013
New Harold Davis Workshops, Events, and Webinars Too!
Full Moon Golden Gate Workshops in June 2013 I'm pleased to announce two new June sessions of our Full Moon Workshop: Photograph the Golden Gate Bridge Like You Never Have…
March 31, 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
Gnarled wood in the desert
In the desert life is harsh, and the intensity of light reflects the harshness of conditions. Photography is best at the fringes of the day---the "golden hour" leading up to…
March 19, 2013