Before the LAB Color Creates
I'm using this image as one of the starting examples for the new course I am recording next week on working with creative LAB color in Photoshop. Click here for…
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January 8, 2019
Marble, Don’t Jump!
The marble languidly perches on the cornice of the volumes of the collected New Yorker cartoons, high above the carpet. "Marble, don't jump, " I cry, as I spring into…
January 6, 2019
A Tale of Three Flower Workshops
I am giving three flower-related photography workshops in 2019. I have been asked a number of times how these workshops differ, and how they overlap---so I'd like to make things…
January 2, 2019
Looking forward to 2019—2019 Harold Davis Workshop Schedule
In 2019 I am looking forward to another exciting year, with travel, creative projects, books to deliver, more online courses, and workshops. If you are interested in my workshops, I…
January 1, 2019
On the Coming of a New Year
The coming of a new year brings reflections on the year that has past, thoughts appropriate to the last day or first day of a year, and ideas about new…
December 31, 2018
Optical Studies
My favorite comment on this series of images, on #3, found over on Instagram: "I've sat here a long time looking at this!"
December 30, 2018
Playing with Light
For the past few days of the break between Christmas and New Years, I have been playing with light. Of course, the word photography is derived from "writing with light"---and…
December 29, 2018
Study in Petals on Black © Harold Davis
Harold Davis—Best of 2018
2018 has been quite a year in art for me. Travel has included the Southwest of France, the Balearic Islands, a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, teaching at Maine…
December 21, 2018
Star Gazer Lily
The Star Gazer Lily is more correctly StarGazer Lily or Lillium 'StarGazer', with "StarGazer" crammed together in one word. This Asiatic Lily is a fairly recent hybridization (circa 1974) of…
December 20, 2018
Cosmic Misunderstanding
Somewhat in the spirit of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, maybe it is all a misunderstanding on the cosmic scale, with the universe a multidimensional freeway interchange where we've…
December 17, 2018
Life Is Strange—Further Abstractions and some Abstract Thoughts
Life is strange. We take inspiration, and the other self-actualization needs and desires that are high up the Maslow hierarchy, where we can find them. From within the prison of…
December 16, 2018
Easy Travel to Other Planets
Related stories: The Making of the Abstractions; Abstracts and a Photographic Mystery; More Abstractions!
December 14, 2018
Exploring the Sacramento Delta
The Steamboat Slough Bridge, shown here from underneath, was built in 1924. According to HistoricBridges.org, this bridge is a good example of a Strauss heel-trunnion bascule bridge. Despite some repair…
December 13, 2018
More abstractions!
Related stories: The Making of the Abstractions; Abstracts and a Photographic Mystery.
December 12, 2018
The Making of the Abstractions
This image and the two other abstracts shown in a previous story were constructed by allowing strong sunlight to pass through bottles filled with fluid (dark brown maple syrup and…
December 10, 2018
Abstracts and a Photographic Mystery
Here's a photographic mystery for you! Can you reverse engineer these abstracts? As a hint, these were essentially created in the camera, with very minimal Photoshop processing in post-production (just…
December 9, 2018
Cefalu
Wandering through the Sicilian village of Cefalu, I made my way to the harbor jetty. Looking back at the whitewashed village, it was clear that from a monochromatic perspective, the…
December 7, 2018
Correlation versus Causality
In downtown Palermo, Sicily, at the intersection of Via Maqueda and Via Vittorio Emanuele is an ornate and baroque piazza, surrounded by four symmetrical structures with statues in niches. Dubbed…
December 4, 2018