Abroad at Home
Photographing with a group at Kirby Cove waiting for the full moon to rise behind the Golden Gate Bridge, it seemed to me that I live in one of the…
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April 19, 2014
Isuien Garden
Gardens in Japan are almost never just about nature. The key point in a Japanese garden is how the natural elements interact with structural and human elements. The style of…
April 18, 2014
Harold Davis Portfolios—current availability
I wanted to post current information about our portfolios: Botanique, Monochromatic Visions and Following the Kumano kodo. I am very excited that both Botanique and Monochromatic Visions were featured in Fine Art…
April 17, 2014
Solar Flare
Rain in California this spring has been sorely needed. It has fallen intermittently and blessedly heavy at times---but never enough to stop the drought or replenish the reservoirs. After one…
April 10, 2014
Using Light for Emotional Impact
Photography is the art and craft of capturing light, whether via silver halide chemistry on film, or via silicon on a sensor array. "Capturing light" is probably the key part…
April 9, 2014
Looking back and thinking forward
I've been looking through my archives from last year in Paris---and finding many images that I want to process! Looking back at the crop from the spring of last year…
April 8, 2014
Iris Friends
These variegated iris are clearly friends. They look at each other with empathy, tendrils even apparently touching---or at least waving to each other!
April 7, 2014
Apartments on the Boulevard Haussman
I was struck by the regularity in this apartment building. Nobody had planters out, no bikes were stored, and old shoes weren't resting in the window embrasures. This kind of…
April 6, 2014
Something Fishy
One of my favorite characters in fantasy literature, J.R.R. Tolkein's Smeagol, would have appreciated the nice, plump and juicy slab of fish I brought back from the store. The fish…
April 5, 2014
Nature’s Palette
Contrary to common cliché, the colors of nature are not always beautiful. But in the case of flowers, colors are almost always beautiful to human eyes. True, flowers need to…
April 4, 2014
Zeiss Lens Ambassador – Harold Davis
I'm really pleased with my new page as a sponsored photographer on the Zeiss Camera Lens Ambassador site. Check it out: http://www.zeiss.com/camera-lenses/en_us/ambassadors/harold_davis.html. Related link: Otus & me (an informal review).
April 3, 2014
Banks of the Seine
Using the same lens (my Zeiss 35mm) and the same camera-in-motion technique as In a Paris Park creates a moody and atmospheric image in monochrome of the banks of the…
April 2, 2014
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday in the Park with George. "George" in this case was my Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 lens. The park is Square Jean XXIII, just behind Notre Dame in Paris, on a…
April 1, 2014
Adventures in a higher key
I photographed these tulips on a light box using my normal shooting sequence, but when the time came to process them I did things somewhat differently. The normal workflow is…
March 29, 2014
French Gardens in Sepia
I was asked to prepare these monochromatic images of gardens in France with a slight sepia cast for possible use by an art world client. I like the way they…
March 28, 2014
Hip to be square
An important part of the gentle art of photographic composition is to recognize that we are rendering a three-dimensional world, in part by presenting it within a two-dimensional frame. An…
March 27, 2014
Photographer as Poet
When people learn that I am a professional photographer, it is not unusual for them to ask me next what kind of photographer I am. The answer is trickier than it might…
March 26, 2014