Happy Easter
Easter Lily, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a close-up photo of the sexual apparatus of an Easter Lily, Lilium longiflorum. Lilium longiflorum is a bulb…
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April 7, 2007
Rose Studies
Rose Study 11, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As everyone knows, roses are associated with seduction and obsession. As Diana Wells puts it, "the rose represents love,…
April 6, 2007
Shadow of Diablo
Shadow of Diablo, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. From the top of Mt Diablo at sunset, Nick and I saw a very long shadow pointing east into…
April 5, 2007
Quartet of Roses
Rose Study 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this quartet of roses as part of a commission for a cosmetics company. As a professional photographer,…
April 4, 2007
Christmas at the end of March
Scarlet Ribbons, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. No wonder this Leucospermum in my garden is called "Scarlet ribbons". I think it looks like a (very, very early)…
March 31, 2007
Maserati and Mount Diablo
Mount Tamalpais from Mount Diablo, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. But for Maserati of America and their badly misguided promotion I never would have taken this photo.…
March 30, 2007
Photography is Poetry
Dawn Reflections in the Merced, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Photography is poetry. A movie is a story, but a photograph is a poem. Robert Frost is…
March 29, 2007
Wave
Wave, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I got an email from Eduardo Agilera, the creator of the labyrinth on Lands End, telling me that he was going…
March 27, 2007
Kid Break
Nicky, photo by Harold Davis. Taking a break from photographing sea coasts, the Golden Gate, Yosemite, and flowers, yesterday I photographed my kids. They were on and off their scooters…
March 26, 2007
Papaver Danebrog
Papaver Danebrog, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This Papaver danebrog, or Poppy Danish Flag, is a species of Poppy Somniferum, or opium poppy, that I got from…
March 24, 2007
Moon Glyph
Moon Glyph, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The first time Mark and I hiked the Tomales Point Trail, we saw Tule Elks, but we didn't get to…
March 24, 2007
Wilder Shore
Wilder Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The wild coast of Point Reyes juts out into the Pacific Ocean northwest of San Francisco. Often fogbound, this graveyard…
March 23, 2007
Golden Wonder
Golden Wonder, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took this photo in Yosemite Valley in very early morning from Leidig Meadow looking northeast towards Middle Brother (shown…
March 20, 2007
Pop Eye
Pop Eye, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Speaking of poppies (we were talking about poppies, right?) here's an extreme close-up of a poppy bud in the early…
March 19, 2007
Spent Poppy
Spent Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Confession, they say, is good for the soul. I have a confession about this photograph of a poppy past its…
March 18, 2007
Morning in Yosemite and an Easter Egg
Morning in Yosemite, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of early morning in Yosemite Valley from Leidig Meadow looking towards Cathedral Rock and Spires…
March 18, 2007
Tulip
Tulip, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. To grow tulips here in Berkeley, California you need to "force" them. A magical word to non-gardeners, all that "forcing" means…
March 17, 2007
Night Sky
Night Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Coming off the Tomales Point trail in the dark, I saw these stunted and windblown trees by starlight. I exposed…
March 16, 2007