Flower Photography Intensive Workshop | July 14 – July 18, 2025
This five-day workshop is intended for photographers who are passionately interested in floral photography. Harold Davis’s unique light box techniques will be covered in depth, along with still life, field, garden, and macro photography and the relevant post-production techniques. Expand your creative floral photography horizons with one of the living masters of flower photography. We look forward to a vibrant and joyful week!
Curriculum: Please bring your joy in floral photography and love for experimenting. Topics covered will include:
- Photographing Flowers for Transparency
- Working with a Light Box
- Floral Arrangement: Mandalas, bouquets, and more
- Composition and floral photography
- Flowers and still life photography
- Macro and extreme macro photography: tools, techniques, and aesthetics
- Printmaking
Participants will have the opportunity for a portfolio review of their work. There will be a field trip to a local garden and/or horticultural nursery on four of the workshop days.
Where: The workshop will be held in downtown Berkeley, California a few blocks from the UC Berkeley campus. The classroom address is:
Dharma College
2222 Harold Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
Location for the Welcome Dinner will be announced closer to the workshop dates.
When: This five-day workshop will be held from 9am to 5pm, Monday July 14, 2025 – Friday July 18, 2025.
The Welcome Dinner (both dinners cost are included in the workshop fee) will be scheduled at 6pm on Sunday, July 13, 2025. There will be a Farewell Dinner at 6pm on Friday, July 18, 2025.
Group Size: This workshop is limited to twelve participants. The size is kept small so that each participant will have the opportunity for personal attention. We do anticipate this workshop filling quickly.
Tuition: The workshop fee is $1,295.00.
Field Trips: Field trips to gardens will be scheduled Tuesday through Friday. Possible destinations include:
- Berkeley Rose Garden
- Tilden Park Botanic Garden
- Blake Garden
- Curious Flora
- Berkeley Horticultural Nursery
Welcome and Farewell Dinners: Welcome and Farewell Dinners are included in the cost of the workshop. The Welcome Dinner is on Sunday, July 13, and the Farewell Dinner on Friday, July 18. The location of the dinners will be announced.
What to Bring: Bring your love of flowers, photography, and a sense of wonder and joy! For light box photography, you’ll need a tripod. A prime normal focal lens works best for this kind of photography.
A computer loaded with Photoshop is recommended (but not required) for the post-production sessions, because you’ll want to practice the skills you’ve learned.
Please contact us with any questions about what gear to bring.
Where to Stay: If you are coming from out-of-area, there are a number of hotels and many restaurants within easy walking distance of the workshop room. We’ll email a PDF showing the hotels and some of restaurants to you once you’ve enrolled, and provide a discount code for the 4-star Hotel Shattuck Plaza (just around the corner from the workshop).
How to Register:
(1) Preferred. Send an email indicating your firm intention to attend the Flower Photography Intensive to harold[at]digitalfieldguide.com. Next, mail a check for $1,295.00 made out to Harold Davis Art & Photo, Inc to:
Harold Davis
632 San Fernando Ave
Berkeley, CA 94707
(2) Click on over to the Harold Davis Photo meetup group [link to follow]. In the listing for the Flower Intensive, click to register and pay the fee using Paypal (any credit card will work).
About Harold Davis: Harold Davis is a world-class artist and photographer who has expanded the parameters of his field with imagery, new techniques, and as an author and educator. Honored with the prestigious Photographic Society of America Progress award in 2022 for his development of a unique technique for photographing flowers for transparency, these works have been described as “ethereal” and having “a purity and translucence that borders on spiritual.” (Popular Photo Magazine)
Davis’s most recent books include Composition & Photography, Creative Garden Photography, and Creative Black & White, all from Rocky Nook.
He is also recognized as a master of black and white. The Seattle Times put it this way: “Harold Davis is the digital black and white equal of Ansel Adams’s traditional wet photography.”
In 2022, two of Harold’s floral images were produced as United States postage stamps. Five new stamps were issued in Berkeley, CA on July 18, 2024. Harold was interviewed about his new stamps on KTVU-TV. The event was covered in the East Bay Times and elsewhere.
Translucent Flora: Photographs by Harold Davis was exhibited at the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture at the San Francisco Botanic Garden in 2023.
Harold is a sought-after workshop leader, who has led groups all over the world and taught and lectured at many institutions including the School of Visual Arts, New York, Google, Maine Photographic Workshops. and the Heidelberg Summer School of Photography in Germany.
