My Brilliant Butterfly
My Brilliant Butterfly, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: this Photoshop composite combines a flatbed scan with a number of camera captures on a lightbox. In…
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July 17, 2008
Revelation and Hiding
Crown of Hydrangea, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Several years ago I planted a couple of exotic hydrangea plants in the shade in my front garden. (I…
July 1, 2008
Ringing Cedars Covers
In November of 2007, while I was clambering around Zion Canyon at night, exploring the Wave, and getting lost in the desert, Phyllis fielded a business call from Ringing Cedars…
June 22, 2008
Hydrangea
Hydrangea Sheila blooms in the shade of my garden. I snipped this crown of flowers, and brought it inside to play with. The image combines two captures, both exposed for…
June 15, 2008
Pacifier
Pacifier, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Why did I do this binkie on black? I don't know...
June 10, 2008
Flowers Are Stars
Flowers Are Stars on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Life goes on. It's hard to keep my thoughts off Katie Rose in the NICU, but I…
May 29, 2008
Inversion of Hellebores
Hellebore on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The image above was the first version of this photo. I used a flourescent light table as my illumination…
February 28, 2008
Capillarity in the Key of Green
Capillarity in Green, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a greener version of Capillarity, shown in an earlier post on black and on white.
January 22, 2008
Petals
Petals, image by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We were proofing a 176 page book--Light and Exposure for Digital Photographers from O'Reilly--on our Epson 4800 printer using rolls of…
January 13, 2008
Hellebore on Black
Hellebore on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mike said he wanted to learn a little more about how I post-processed photos. So he drove down the…
January 3, 2008
Bay Leaves
Bay Leaves, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. With this photogram of bay leaves, I wish you and yours a taste-filled and happy New Year!
December 30, 2007
Snow Peas
Snow Peas on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. These snow peas started on white (below) and ended up manipulated for effect on black (above). View this…
December 30, 2007
’Shrooms
Shitake Mushrooms, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I blasted light through these shitake mushrooms, photographed the group from above. In Photoshop, I inverted the photo to get…
December 29, 2007
Star Anise
Star Anise, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Star anise is a spice used in Chinese, Indian, and Vietnamese cooking. The star anise is the fruit of the…
December 29, 2007
Anemone on Black
Anemone on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Here's a photogram made from an anemone Japonica from our garden that I'm just getting around to blogging.
December 21, 2007
Dragonfly Clad All in Green
Dragonfly in Green, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This dude is an even greener version of the already pretty green Dragonfly 4.
December 17, 2007
Helleborus on Black
Helleborus on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Here's an interpretive version of the Helleborus on White. I think the effect is like a glowing, stained glass…
December 15, 2007
Trio of Double Hellebores
Double Hellebore 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The original photo of this triad (immediately below) is a double hellebore blossom. It's one of the first blossoms…
December 12, 2007