Scalloped
Scalloped, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I stood on the bluffs high above Drakes Beach just after the sun had dipped below the horizon. The high bluffs…
3 Comments
April 21, 2008
Country Road
Country Road, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The verdant emptiness of the Point Reyes peninsula is achingly beautiful just after sunset. On a recent weekday, there was…
April 20, 2008
Pole Star
Pole Star, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the last of a sequence of twelve photos of the wrecked Point Reyes trawler near Inverness. I took…
April 18, 2008
The Long and Short
Star Trawler 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is my first, and shortest, exposure of the Point Reyes boat the other night. As I explained in…
April 18, 2008
Star Trawler
Star Trawler 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 1,204 second (or about twenty minute) exposure of the wrecked fishing trawler Point Reyes. I've photographed…
April 17, 2008
Assembling Clivia
Clivia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Clivia, a lily-like flower originally from southern Africa, grow on the shaded side of our house with very little intervention from…
April 15, 2008
Anemone and Bicycles
Anemone, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a close-up of an anemone, a flower in the buttercup (Ranunculus) family named after the Greek word for wind.…
April 14, 2008
Shine a Light on Digital Photography
The time has come, the walrus famously said, to talk of many things (thanks, Lewis Carroll). Rather than shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, and kings, I tend to talk about…
April 14, 2008
Each Apple Pear
Pear Blossom Special, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Obviously, I have a fondness for small aperture, fully stopped-down flower macros that use high depth of field to…
April 11, 2008
Lupine along the Trail
Lupine along the Trail, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Coming back from Alamere Falls, I photographed this lupine bush with two exposures, one for the sunset in…
April 7, 2008
Alamere Falls Looking North
Alamere Falls Looking North, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Alamere Falls is sited dramatically, tumbling over a sheer cliff to the beach and ocean. My compositional problem…
April 6, 2008
Door Knob Dome Scandal
Door Knob Dome Scandal, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Everyone thought it a scandal when the door knob in my basement got together with the dome in…
April 5, 2008
Dome
Dome, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the interior of the dome of San Francisco City Hall. I lay on my back in the central space…
April 5, 2008
Hike to Alamere Falls
Alamere Falls, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Alamere Falls tumbles down a cliff to the Pacific Ocean in Point Reyes National Seashore. This awesome waterfall lies north…
April 4, 2008
Nicky Jumping
Nicky Jumping, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a recent trip to Alcatraz, Nicky started jumping in the exercise yard. I was mindful of Philippe Halsman's famous…
April 3, 2008
America at Home
Rick Smolan gave me a coupon for a version of his book America at Home with a custom cover, and I put Julian and Nicky in the design (see below).…
April 3, 2008
Asiatic Lily Bouquet
Asiatic Lily Bouquet, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this interesting mixed Lily bouquet on black velvet, with natural daylight and a tungsten spot. As always…
March 31, 2008
Caught in the Freesia Drops
Caught in the Freesia Drops, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. After a night of gentle rain I went out into the garden on a bright, overcast windless…
March 30, 2008