Transamerica Tower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Wandering around downtown San Francisco last night taking photos, my tripod and I managed a "two-fer": we were evicted from…
Sumi-e Bark, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Sometimes it really pays to look close-up. The markings on bark that appear like a Japanese sumi-e ink painting of…
Day of Reckoning, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. To make a fisheye composition work, usually you need an interesting foreground subject up very close and personal as…
Coming and Going, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. After dark, before moonrise, I set my tripod up on the median strip of University Ave at Sixth Street…
First Light, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: This is a re-cropped (and slightly re-processed) version of Upper Yosemite Falls. (See the original story for info…
Moon Caught, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Late afternoon yesterday was clear and wonderful here in East Bay. I knew the full moon would be rising at…
Moon Walk, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a shot by moonlight, taken in the high, arid White Mountains along the California-Nevada border. The two minute…
Katie Rose loves to play, and gets great joy from simple things. She's shown here playing with her double in a mirror. What a difference a year makes! Back then,…
Touching the Rainbow, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the Patriarch Grove, abode of some of the oldest living things, the Bristlecone Pines, the weather was wild…
Shaving Spirals, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: a photo composite created from the shavings left after sharpening a pencil.
Pencil Shaving I, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The shavings from a sharpened pencil, shown above and below, were almost discarded, but made an interesting pattern. View…
More Grills Gone Wild, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In case the first Grills Gone Wild wasn't enough...
Grills Gone Wild, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an abstraction based on the car grill shown below and Chrome, seen in my Car Show story.…
Eye Study 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I keep trying to emulate Escher's Eye. Which, as I might have expected, is harder than meets the, er,…
Chrome, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On Saturday I took Julian to the Classic Car Show on the Tiburon waterfront. It was lots of fun, and I…
Hill, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I've been thinking about lines in composition, and black & white. Here are two examples where both visual effects come into…
Self Portrait, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Inspired by Eye, a mezzotint by M.C. Escher, I created this self portrait with purple Clematis blossoms reflected in my…
Interstitial, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I combined six different captures of these tiny water drops caught in a spider's web to capture the range of light…