Oakland 16th Street Station
The Oakland 16th Street Station, also called the Central Oakland Station, was built in the early 1900s as a grand terminus for the Southern Pacific Railway. In service until 1994,…
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May 29, 2015
Rainbow Bridge, Tokyo
In the eighteenth century, Tokyo---then known as Edo---was the world’s largest city, with a population of over one million. Today, Tokyo is still one of the world’s great metropoli, sprawling…
May 28, 2015
Sweet Pea after O’Keeffe
After seeing some of my photos mistaken for O'Keeffe's luscious flower paintings, I took another look at the wondrous botanical art of Georgia O'Keeffe. The sensuous, indeed sexual, nature of…
May 26, 2015
Dogwood & Friends
A Matilija Poppy pokes out in the middle of a covert of flowering dogwood, cosmos, old-fashioned roses, echinacea, and climbing mallows. Enjoy! Photographed straight down on my light box for…
May 24, 2015
Floral Fantasies
These floral fantasies are created and photographed as collages on the light box, then processing in Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop, Nik, Topaz, and using LAB color adjustments. What fun! Photographed…
May 21, 2015
Historic D Ranch, Point Reyes
Point Reyes National Seashore is probably unique among the American National Parks in that this public land is shared with working cattle and dairy ranches. These ranches date from the…
May 19, 2015
Mona Lisa wants to photograph Italy with Harold Davis
Prospectus and itinerary: www.digitalfieldguide.com/learning/workshops-events/italy Registration details: www.digitalfieldguide.com/italy-registering Click here to download graphic as e-Card PDF
May 18, 2015
Monterey Cypress Row on Point Reyes
On my way to teach a weekend Seascapes and Wildflowers workshop at the western tip of Point Reyes, California I stopped to photograph the well-known row of Monterey Cypress trees…
May 18, 2015
An angel watching out for me
The barista at Farley's in Emeryville, California makes the nicest designs in the Latte foam!
May 14, 2015
Flickr and a perfect trifecta of tagging errors
Long-time readers of my blog will know that I am no fan of the perspicacity and wisdom of the powers-that-be at Flickr and their Yahoo masters. This is despite the…
May 13, 2015
Mallow
Like Clematis this is a single blossom, photographed on a light box, inverted to black in LAB, and then converted to monochrome using a virtual Infrared filter. The steps are…
May 12, 2015
Floral Square
Last week when I have a composition on my light box I photographed it with a high resolution camera on tripod. Then I thought, why not do it using my…
May 11, 2015
A Short Course in Translucency
Images that verge on the transparent and convey translucency can appear miraculous. If you want to learn my techniques for photographing flowers for transparency on a light box, but can't…
May 6, 2015
Pre-Publication Review of Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer by Harold Davis
I'm pleased to see a positive pre-publication review of my new book Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer: A Photographer's Creative Companion and Workbook in the May issue of Rangefinder Magazine.…
May 5, 2015
Pont Valentre
The ancient Pont Valentre crosses a loop in the Lot River at the city of Cahors in southwestern France. The tower in the middle of the river of this fortified…
May 4, 2015
Essays in Translucency
Related stories: The Virtues of Translucency; Clematis; Miraculum Flores.
May 3, 2015
Miraculum Flores
Flowers are a miracle! This is a spring in Berkeley, California that is wondrous in terms of blossoms, and I have been enjoying it and photographing up a floral storm,…
May 1, 2015