Where does inspiration come from?
I’m often asked in workshops I lead where I get my inspiration and ideas for photography. I like to respond that “inspiration is not a tame lion.” This is a…
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December 1, 2011
Road Less Travelled
Phyllis and I were lucky earlier this week to spend a few hours at Green Gulch Farm. Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, also known as Green Dragon Temple (Soryu-ji), is a…
December 1, 2011
Distant Mountains
From my viewpoint on the edge of the eastern Sierra the distant mountains were invisible---hidden in a dense swirl of fog and cloud. I waited a while. For an instant…
November 28, 2011
Splendour in the Grass
I arrived early for a workshop I was leading in Bear Valley, the park headquarters for Point Reyes National Seashore. As soon as I parked my car I noticed a…
November 25, 2011
Giving Thanks
According to a recent New York Times article, scientific studies have shown that expressing gratitude can improve one's health and lead to less anxiety and depression. Also, as the article puts…
November 23, 2011
Yosemite View—Special Print Offer
For a limited time only we are making available an archival pigment print of my dramatic monochromatic image of Yosemite (shown below) at a very special price. You can learn…
November 22, 2011
Ladyboot Arch
Ladyboot Arch, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an image of Ladyboot Arch, named for perhaps obvious reasons, shot in the Alabama Hills on the last…
November 21, 2011
Arc of the Blue Sky
Arc of the Blue Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On the day before the Star Circle Academy workshop began I shot with some friends and early…
November 18, 2011
Wheels within Wheels
This wheel of the thresher shown in Separating the Wheat from the Chaff called out to me because of the tonal contrast between its inner workings and outer structure. I…
November 17, 2011
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…
November 16, 2011
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