By popular demand, we have scheduled a second free session of Photographing Flowers for Transparency | Part 1: Introduction because the first session filled up right away to the capacity…
I am proud to announce a series of NEW online Harold Davis webinars. At this point, we will be experimenting with different subjects and offerings. So if there is anything…
In honor of Dada, surrealism, and April Fool's Day, and for a good belly laugh, please check out my new video, GET SEXY -- Guide to getting what you want…
This too shall pass. It will take some time. Perhaps far longer than we'd like, and there will be tragic losses. The changes that will be wrought will be more…
Wants some pure escapism amid beautiful landscapes? Take a few minutes and check out my photos in a new video, Relaxing Landscapes and Sunsets. Please subscribe to my YouTube channel!…
Now that I have your attention! OK, the donut of doom does not refer to the Coronavirus pandemic, nor to Homer Simpson. Per the New York Times, "doughnut of doom"…
Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel (it's free to do, and helps us, too!). We are adding content every day, so check it out. The emphasis is on teaching photography,…
The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California may be closed while we shelter in place, but I am looking forward very much to the double feature coming soon: The Death…
Shopping in the time of the Coronavirus starts with questions. How safe is it to go shopping? What is the risk-reward profile? Where are we on the curve of the…
Two of the best books I know that involve pandemics are the well-known classics Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, and Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the…
My YouTube Channel rises from the ashes. Thanks to my family helping (I'm watching Katie, my youngest, develop into one great project manager with great pride!) and sheltering in place,…
NEW EVENT! Please consider joining me at the Out of Chicago LIVE! Online Global Photography Conference taking place April 24-26, 2020. Can't make it to a live photography event? This…
American photographer Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) used his camera to create essentially abstract expressionist imagery. In Siskind's photography, the abstract composition of shapes integrated through effective uses of positive and negative…
In his cryptic and chaotic first novel V, Thomas Pynchon describes the work of a painter named Slab: Slab and Esther, uncomfortable with each other, stood in front of an…
Flower Power. It's hip to be square---as in the floral carpet image (below). Making space for conversations with flowers (middle image on white, bottom image an LAB L-channel inversion on…
Sometimes an image is simply about a point, or a line. In this high-key image across the Bay on an overcast day, I created an image of a train bridge…
This time of year there are so many wonderful flowers to photograph on my light box. Our rooms are filled with their wondrous beauty, and when I make compositions on…
It's easily possible to get lost in the folds of the earth viewed from Zabriskie Point: visually with a camera, and practically as well if one wanders in the valleys.…