Yan-o-pah, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Every view in Yosemite Valley has probably been photographed, and most views more than once. The famous vistas have been photographed…
Butterflies on a Sock above Vernal Falls, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. After climbing the Mist Trail, we were thoroughly soaked. The great rock platform on top…
Rainbow on the Mist Trail, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Part of the fun of climbing the stairs of the Mist Trail to the top of Vernal…
Calochortus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Wild flowers---like the Calochortus above, also sometimes called a Mariposa Lily---grow along Hite's Cove Trail above the South Fork of the…
Snow Plant, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The snow plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, is really pretty amazing. Coming up out of snow or forest undergrowth, it produces no…
View from Moro Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It had been raining for our first two days in Sequoia, and Julian was getting "squirelly." Well, I…
Be the Bee, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I have been photographing bees in my garden in the warm sunshine of mid-afternoon. Nikon D200 + 200mm macro…
Peony Glowing, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. For me, photography is about color and light. The two come together in flowers that are backlit by the sun,…
Biggest, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. What do you do as a photographer when confronted with the biggest tree on earth, stretching up so high that it…
Flowering Yucca, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Driving down the dramatic road from Grant Grove into Kings Canyon, Julian and I descended through a gentle but steady…
Drama Queen, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a Papaver somniferum---yes, the poppy from which opium is made--being beautiful in my garden. This particular variety of…
Luminous Day Lily, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Luminous---emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light. Surely this day lily from my side yard is luminous.…
Garden Sculpture, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Some people have bird baths, plastic gnomes, wishing wells, or pink flamingos in their garden. We have this remains of…
Wing, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Looking at this apparent celestial meteor through my macro rig, I wasn't sure what had fallen to earth. Actually, it is…
Worlds without End, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Everytime I point my lens at water drops on a spider web, I think of worlds within worlds and…
Being in Clover, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Friends with benefits. That is kind of the way I feel about a side effect of poking my macro…
Dawn Chorus 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is this first flower from this papaver, poetically (and aptly) named Dawn Chorus. View this photograph larger. Usually…
Eye of the Passiflora, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Everyone who knows me---or who reads my blog---knows that I garden to photograph and photograph to garden. Oh,…