Sunshine and Water Drops
Sunshine and Water Drops on a Papaver Stem, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed these water drops on a poppy stem backlit by the early morning…
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June 7, 2006
What is a Photographer?
Death Valley Sunrise 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I originally blogged this photograph here. In the 1980s, when I was a photographer based in New York…
June 7, 2006
Lost in the Funhouse
Lost in the Funhouse, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's very hard with a photo like this water drop on my leucospermum to see what one is…
June 7, 2006
Poppy in the Sun
Poppy in the Sun, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this poppy early this morning in my garden. It is a papaver somniferum, or opium poppy,…
June 6, 2006
Noon a Purple Glow
Noon a Purple Glow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I named this photo using a line from a William Butler Yeats poem Lake Isle of Innisfree (the…
June 5, 2006
Irrigation
Irrigation 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Having spent a great deal of time observing water drops up close and personal, I am firmly convinced that water…
June 4, 2006
White Mallow
White Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I was caught up in photographing the spiral deep inside a pink mallow. Then I looked up and noticed this…
June 3, 2006
Spiral in a Mallow
Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a photograph at fairly high magnification (about 8:1) of an annual Mallow flower, Lavatera trimestris. I photographed it today…
June 2, 2006
Even the Miwok Names Are Forgotten
Yan-o-pah, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Every view in Yosemite Valley has probably been photographed, and most views more than once. The famous vistas have been photographed…
May 31, 2006
Sock Nectar
Butterflies on a Sock above Vernal Falls, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. After climbing the Mist Trail, we were thoroughly soaked. The great rock platform on top…
May 31, 2006
Rainbow on the Mist Trail
Rainbow on the Mist Trail, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Part of the fun of climbing the stairs of the Mist Trail to the top of Vernal…
May 31, 2006
Raise High the ISO, Digital Photographic Craftspeople!
Calochortus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Wild flowers---like the Calochortus above, also sometimes called a Mariposa Lily---grow along Hite's Cove Trail above the South Fork of the…
May 31, 2006
Snow Plant
Snow Plant, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The snow plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, is really pretty amazing. Coming up out of snow or forest undergrowth, it produces no…
May 30, 2006
View from Moro Rock
View from Moro Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It had been raining for our first two days in Sequoia, and Julian was getting "squirelly." Well, I…
May 30, 2006
Be the Bee
Be the Bee, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I have been photographing bees in my garden in the warm sunshine of mid-afternoon. Nikon D200 + 200mm macro…
May 29, 2006
Peony Glowing
Peony Glowing, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. For me, photography is about color and light. The two come together in flowers that are backlit by the sun,…
May 28, 2006
Biggest: Correcting Digital Fisheye Distortion
Biggest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. What do you do as a photographer when confronted with the biggest tree on earth, stretching up so high that it…
May 28, 2006
Yucca Flower
Flowering Yucca, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Driving down the dramatic road from Grant Grove into Kings Canyon, Julian and I descended through a gentle but steady…
May 27, 2006