The Amazing World of Flowers
One of the things I love most about flower photography is that it compels one to look closely at flowers. The more you look, the more you see! What a…
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May 27, 2017
Recent Flower Photos
I'm happy to take advantage of the wonderful spring flowers this year here in California, and make up for the time I was traveling with some extensive flower photography! Here…
May 25, 2017
Fulsome Praise for The Photographer’s Black & White Handbook
I am blushing! From the Seattle Book Review: "Harold Davis is the digital black and white equal of Ansel Adams’s traditional wet photography. Adams would be awed by Davis’s work.…
May 23, 2017
Upcoming Flower Photography Workshop—A Few Spaces Available—Other Updates
We have only a few spaces open in my upcoming Flower Photography Intensive 4-Day Workshop here In Berkeley California coming next month, June 22-25, 2017. This will be a great time…
May 22, 2017
Potemkin Water Wheel
This photo of kids playing on a river bank near a waterwheel is from a tribal village near Sapa in the north of Vietnam. The thing to observe is that…
May 21, 2017
The Reality of Sapa, Vietnam
From six thousand miles away, reading about Sapa in the Lonely Planet guide and on the internet, I thought the city would be as advertised: a serene portal to the mountains of North…
May 20, 2017
Introducing Multiple Exposures
Phyllis and I are working on an artist's book---really a booklet---based on my Multiple Exposures body of work. The title, Multiple Exposures, is a play on the technique used, and…
May 19, 2017
Lace from Gozo
This is a piece of handmade lace from the island of Gozo, one of the islands in the Maltese archipelago. I bought the lace notionally as a present for Phyllis,…
May 18, 2017
Home is Best…with Flower Photography
As the saying goes, "You may travel east, you may travel west, but in your heart you know home is best!" In the past two months, I have traveled east…
May 17, 2017
Pear (or Pair)
Good to be home to a land of lush florals and fruit supreme, always with anthropomorphic potential. Taking a little time to be laid back, while Phyllis and I consider…
May 16, 2017
Getting Inside My Head
Well, I'm not exactly John Malkovitch, but I am pleased and excited to see this attempt to "Get inside the head of this marvelous man whose writing is as evocative…
May 13, 2017
Goodbye Malta!
I am home today after a long day in transit yesterday from Valletta, Malta early in the morning to Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris, France, followed by a fairly…
May 12, 2017
This evening on Xlendi Bay
Here are two iPhone images I made this evening with walking along the esplanade at the end of narrow and picturesque Xlendi Bay on the wonderful Maltese island of Gozo.…
May 9, 2017
Moon over Xlendi Bay
The sound of the waves in narrow Xlendi Bay on Gozo, the Maltese island of Calypso, put me to sleep. Waking in the middle of the night, moonlight streaming through…
May 9, 2017
Cliffs of Gozo
Gozo, the second largest island in the Maltese archipelago, is often said to be Ogygia, where the nymph Calypso detained Odysseus, using her wiles to make Odysseus her mate, and…
May 8, 2017
Tables and Chairs
I photographed these tables and chairs at a cafe with no customers yet from above in strong early morning light from the terraces of the Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta,…
May 7, 2017
Dome, St Augustine Church
This is an interior image of the dome of the somewhat ornate St Augustine Church in Valletta, Malta. I exposed nine images handheld while sitting in a pew, using my…
May 7, 2017
St Ursula Street, Valletta
This is one of the interior streets in the compact, picturesque, and fortified city of Valletta, Malta. I don't think there is anyplace else in the world like Valletta---and I'll…
May 6, 2017