Spiral into Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: There are spirals in nature and grand artist-created spirals like Robert Smithson's massive spiral jetty. There are…
Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I grew this delicious Sunflower for the purposes of photography. Putting it on a black velvet background, I made…
Multitasking, photo by Harold Davis. Mathew, who just turned four, gets so engrossed in his computer that he needs to multitask. Which in his case means dragging his small wooden…
Spoils of Victory, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: At two and a half minutes, this is my longest exposure from the shoot the other day…
Katie Rose is progressing. The NICU at CPMC is organized into three different rooms: North is where babies are admitted, first treated and evaluated; East is where babies grow long…
Wandering the dark mid-level tiers of Fort Point in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge I came upon a window without glass. This is the same window I photographed…
Dome of St Ignatius Church, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this is the dome of the Jesuit St Ignatius Church, adjacent to San Francisco University.…
It's great to see Katie Rose doing normal baby things. She's still monitored and in the NICU, still on supplemental oxygen, and still gets most of her calories via a…
Briefly noted: the Jesuit parish St. Ignatius Church was built in 1914 following the destruction of a previous Jesuit church in the great San Francisco earthquake. The docent history of…
Ghosts, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mare Island, a peninsula across the Napa River from Vallejo, California, was the site of the first naval shipyard on the…
Without Training Wheels, photo by Harold Davis. Katie is now without tubes, not all the time, but sometimes when she is feeding, and for hours at a stretch. Partly, she's…
My Brilliant Butterfly, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this Photoshop composite combines a flatbed scan with a number of camera captures on a lightbox. In…
When I first looked at Understanding Shutter Speed by Bryan Peterson on Amazon I wondered how shutter speed, only one of the components of an exposure, made up a book.…
Katie and Bottle, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose is sneaking up on five pounds. She is doing so well. A couple of days ago, on her first try, she…
Gaillardia in Flight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Gaillardia in flight...afternoon delight. Well, I did take the images in this composite in the afternoon, and Gaillardia is…
When you use Photoshop, nothing is more important than the ability to make selections. As a simple example, when you want to make a composite by moving a person from…
Like World without End, my image of endless doors, I shot the base photo for this image at Fort Point in San Francisco. In the shadow of the Golden Gate…
Mathew at Step One, photo by Harold Davis. Yesterday was Mathew's fourth birthday. Despite the stress of Katie Rose's birth, not to mention our commutes back and forth to the…