Came Both Mist and Stars
Came Both Mist and Stars, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: It was a wet, misty Yosemite night. The fog clouds that were almost snow only…
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March 12, 2009
Windswept Shore
Windswept Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: On Drakes Beach a ferocious wind blew through the gap in the bluffs out to sea. In the…
March 11, 2009
Clinic
We spent a day with Katie Rose at the Whitney Clinic for developmental followup at six months gestationally corrected. This was a tiring day for Katie (and for us), but…
March 9, 2009
Flash Dance
Flash Dance, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: The cloud above El Capitan was lit with the last light of the setting sun, but the winter…
March 9, 2009
Photographing Kids, Family, and (other) Weird Things
I named this free, live, hour-long webcast presented by O'Reilly Digital Media with tongue in cheek, and also in homage to naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell (My Family and Other…
March 8, 2009
Slide Show
For quite a while art director and art agent types have been bugging me to publish an online portfolio. The complaint is that it is hard to find what I'm…
March 7, 2009
Mirror Lake
Mirror Lake, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I got the boys occupied in throwing snow balls and trying to crush through the skim ice on Mirror Lake.…
March 5, 2009
Yosemite at Night
Yosemite at Night, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. With the boys tucked safely in bed I headed out into what proved an increasingly moist night. Wet fog…
March 3, 2009
Dawn
View this image larger I finished my exposure stack as the first light of dawn hit the top of Yosemite Falls. Turning round, I saw the tree in this photo…
March 2, 2009
Yosemite Night
Waking up, I glanced at the clock. It was 3:49AM. The kids were sleeping peacefully in our room at Yosemite Lodge. I dressed for winter, and headed out into the…
February 28, 2009
Katie Rose Is Fine
Katie Rose in the Bath, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose is doing the normal baby things. She enjoys her bath. She weighes over fifteen pounds. She's gaining the strength…
February 26, 2009
Fisheye Family
Fisheye Family Katie, photo by Harold Davis. I sometimes enjoy the creative challenge of being constrained to a single lens, and it is certainly a challenge to create portraits with…
February 21, 2009
Isopogon Formosus
Rose Cone Flower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Isopogon formosus, commonly known as the Rose Cone Flower, is a standing shrub native to western Australia. This member…
February 20, 2009
Digital Post-Processing Workshop
I've been wanted to do a post-processing workshop about creativity in the digital darkroom for quite a while, and many people have asked me to do this. So I finally…
February 19, 2009
Flower Assignment Extended
On Photo.net I devised an assignment: to photograph a flower in a unique way—in a way that nobody’s seen before. So far, there have been some absolutely great assignment submissions.…
February 18, 2009
Tone Poem
Late in the afternoon of a bright autumn day I arrived in Yosemite Valley. The valley was already in shadow, with only the tops of the surrounding cliffs lit by…
February 17, 2009
Abstraction
With the kids and Phyllis asleep, over the course of a long winter night I "painted" in Photoshop to create this quartet of abstractions from a single capture of paper…
February 16, 2009
Paper Tree Bark
Paper Tree Bark, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In Blake Garden I came across this pile of bark of a Paper Mulberry tree, Broussonetia papyritera. Very textural…
February 15, 2009