A Delicate Brush
Petal, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I'm not sure what to say about this one. Sometimes everything seems to go right, even when it is the middle…
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October 18, 2006
Bee Sits on Dahlia
Bee on Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Bee sits on dahlia With camera and macro strobe For once I am there Related poetry: Haiku for Apple…
October 18, 2006
Two Views of a Gazania for You
Gazania 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Two views of a gazania (a flower also called an African daisy) unfurling. Can you tell which photogram is closer…
October 17, 2006
Bristlecone and Sierra Crest
Bristlecone and Sierra Crest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest sits high atop the White Mountains of California, across Owens Valley from the…
October 16, 2006
Zen and the Single Poppy
Papaver nudicaule, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. The poet Milton contrasts subtlety and fineness on the one hand, and simplicity and sensuosity on the other in these…
October 16, 2006
Is It Photography?
Butterfly 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Are images like the butterfly above or below, or this clematis, photography? Good question. In one sense, they certainly start…
October 16, 2006
On Topic
Oregano Leaves, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On the subject of oregano, and not simplicity, here are some photogrammed and heavily cross-processed leaves of origanum rotundifolium. Note,…
October 15, 2006
Thrice as nice…
Three Oregano Flower Petals, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. If one petal of an oregano flower is nice, are three petals of the origanum rotundifolium flower thrice…
October 15, 2006
Simplicity
Origanum rotundifolium, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photogram of a petal of the flower of an oregano plant, origanum rotundifolium. Usually, when I capture…
October 14, 2006
Hibiscus Flower
Hibiscus Flower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photogram of a hibiscus flower is a good companion to the Mallow image I created recently. Both flowers grew…
October 13, 2006
Elephant Rock in the Snow
Elephant Rock in the Snow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Here's a photo of mine from February 2006. It shows Elephant Rock, near the entrance to Yosemite…
October 12, 2006
Water Drops and Toad Lilies
Water Drops and Toad Lilies, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. These water drops on a spider's web reflect the toad lilies (strange plants of the genus Tricyrtis)…
October 11, 2006
Mallow
Mallow 3, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a mallow flower from a minature bush mallow that I planted in our garden. Here are other mallow…
October 10, 2006
The Earth Is Flat
Sinking Sun, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I didn't realize that the earth really was flat, but this capture of the Golden Gate assures me that the…
October 10, 2006
This is a Lobelia…
Lobelia I, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. ...so if you know your flowers, you'll realize the original was quite small. Shown above after inversion and cross-processing, and…
October 6, 2006
Cloud
Cloud, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Yesterday evening at sunset a beautiful sky. Julian scampered all over Indian Rock clammering for my attention as I focused on…
October 6, 2006
Clematis
Clematis, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Here's a clematis captured using my digital photogram technique and cross-processed, on a black background (above) and inverted on a white…
October 5, 2006
Looking up from Camp Curry
Looking up from Camp Curry, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It is impossible to find a place to stand in Yosemite Valley that is not photogenic. I…
October 4, 2006