Breaking Wave
Breaking Wave, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Walking along the Marin Headlands cliffs between Rodeo Beach and Tennessee Beach, I was struck by the brightness of the…
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September 26, 2007
Worlds Within
Worlds Within, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo from about a year ago. I stood in my garden and saw these water drops clinging…
September 25, 2007
View North from Muir Beach Overlook
View North from Muir Beach Overlook, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The sun had just set and the wind was blowing in on the Muir Beach overlook.…
September 25, 2007
Woodland Pond
Woodland Pond, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Like Wood between the Worlds, the background of this photocomposite combines Big Sticks (from New Mexico above Santa Fe) and…
September 24, 2007
Incoming Storm
Incoming Storm, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Yesterday at dusk I watched the setting sun race an incoming storm over the Golden Gate. [300mm in 35mm equivalent…
September 22, 2007
Tracking the Sun
Tripping the Bridge Fantastic, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Landscape photographers know that there is nothing more important than light. Learning to pay attention to light is…
September 21, 2007
San Francisco from Muir Beach Overlook
San Francisco from Muir Beach Overlook, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. We parked Mark's truck near the Pelican Inn behind Muir Beach and drove in my car…
September 20, 2007
Zulu Prince
Zulu Prince, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Here's another unblogged image from my files. The photo shows a Zulu Prince flower (the botannical name is Venidium Fastuosum).…
September 18, 2007
Depth of Field and Aperture
Dahlia at f/4, photo by Harold Davis. I shot these two photos of a dahlia to illustrate the impact of aperture on depth of field. The photo above, with a…
September 17, 2007
Apparent Sharpness Versus Optical Sharpness
A reader of my Photoblog 2.0 writes: "I notice that in more than one of your photos you use high f-stop values. Your results look great, despite what I've read…
September 17, 2007
Trawler on Tomales Bay
Trawler on Tomales Bay, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Julian and I spent a fun afternoon yesterday, hiking Steep Ravine and the Millerton Point trail in Tomales…
September 16, 2007
Iris (the Wave)
Iris (the Wave), photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a Trader Joe's iris. I used a spray bottle on the flower and lit it from below…
September 15, 2007
Mount Tamalpais Sunset
Mount Tamalpais Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As I watched the clouds swirl through the Golden Gate, I turned and saw the setting sun beside Mount…
September 14, 2007
Blowing in the Golden Gate
Blowing in the Golden Gate, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. When the clouds blow in the Golden Gate (which is often) and when there's also a blue…
September 14, 2007
Iceberg
Iceberg, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a reflection of a white iceberg rose bud, photographed on a mirror. I used a spray bottle to make…
September 14, 2007
Point Reyes Sunset
Point Reyes Sunset, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. What's a photographer to do? With the sun setting along the coast, however you expose the image the sun…
September 13, 2007
Water Marbles
Water Marbles, photo by Harold Davis. I first blogged this photo in June of 2006 in a supporting role in a story called More Drops. I think "Water Marbles" deserves…
September 13, 2007
Core of the Anemone
Core of the Anemone, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. When I posted yesterday's photo of a pink anemone, I realized I had never blogged this white anemone…
September 12, 2007