Wright Stairs
Wright Stairs, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo taken looking straight up one of the smaller, back staircases at the Marin Center, designed by…
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April 29, 2008
Big Dipper
Big Dipper, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. While shooting the Star Trawler and Pole Star sequence, I noticed that the old, wrecked trawler Point Reyes could be…
April 29, 2008
Falling in Love on White
Falling in Love on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the Papaver rhoeas 'Falling in Love' that I photographed on a black background. The version…
April 29, 2008
Falling in Love
Falling in Love, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo of a Papaver rhoeas 'Falling in Love,' a double variety of Papaver rhoeas I got…
April 28, 2008
Looking Down
Looking Down, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I took the original version of this photo (you can see it below) from the top of a rotunda in…
April 28, 2008
Red Flowering Dogwood Blossom
Red Flowering Dogwood, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Phyllis and I celebrated our wedding anniversary last week. Sixteen years, three kids and one more on the way,…
April 26, 2008
Camping on Angel Island
Campsite #4, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I spent a night last week camping on Angel Island. Smack dab in the middle of San Francisco Bay, wild…
April 25, 2008
High Focal Range (HFR)
Daffodil, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. If you've ever looked closely at a daffodil like this beautiful specimen, you'll know that within the outer yellow petals is…
April 22, 2008
Monochrome Shore
Monochrome Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I've been thinking a good bit lately about making black and white prints from certain of my digital images. Actually,…
April 22, 2008
Scalloped
Scalloped, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I stood on the bluffs high above Drakes Beach just after the sun had dipped below the horizon. The high bluffs…
April 21, 2008
Country Road
Country Road, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The verdant emptiness of the Point Reyes peninsula is achingly beautiful just after sunset. On a recent weekday, there was…
April 20, 2008
Pole Star
Pole Star, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is the last of a sequence of twelve photos of the wrecked Point Reyes trawler near Inverness. I took…
April 18, 2008
The Long and Short
Star Trawler 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is my first, and shortest, exposure of the Point Reyes boat the other night. As I explained in…
April 18, 2008
Star Trawler
Star Trawler 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a 1,204 second (or about twenty minute) exposure of the wrecked fishing trawler Point Reyes. I've photographed…
April 17, 2008
Assembling Clivia
Clivia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Clivia, a lily-like flower originally from southern Africa, grow on the shaded side of our house with very little intervention from…
April 15, 2008
Anemone and Bicycles
Anemone, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a close-up of an anemone, a flower in the buttercup (Ranunculus) family named after the Greek word for wind.…
April 14, 2008
Shine a Light on Digital Photography
The time has come, the walrus famously said, to talk of many things (thanks, Lewis Carroll). Rather than shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, and kings, I tend to talk about…
April 14, 2008
Each Apple Pear
Pear Blossom Special, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Obviously, I have a fondness for small aperture, fully stopped-down flower macros that use high depth of field to…
April 11, 2008
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