Monthly Archives: August 2015

Spiral Inside the Pemaquid Lighthouse

August 13, 2015 by Harold Davis | 1 Comment

Today I visited Pemaquid Point, Maine and its well-known lighthouse. This is still an operational lighthouse, run by the United States Coastguard. After I visited the top of the tower, the docent was kind enough to let me set my tripod up under the spiral stairs leading up, provided I didn’t block traffic. This was a simple tripod-mounted, single exposure using my Nikon D810 and a Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 lens, for 30 seconds at f/22 and ISO 64, processed in Bridge, Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), and Photoshop, and converted to black and white using Nik Silver Efex Pro and Photoshop.

Inside the Pemaquid Lighthouse © Harold Davis

Posted in Monochrome

Monhegan Island Storm

August 11, 2015 by Harold Davis | 2 Comments

Monhegan Island is a small island twelve miles off the coast of Maine. There are a handful of year around residents who mostly fish for lobster, many artists who come here in the summer, and visitors like me who come for a brief respite from civilization. The island clings to the edge of the ocean, and the coast of the mainland is only a smudge at the edge of vision. Today a storm rolled in, and I photographed the outer edge of the island near Lobster Cove as waves crashed against the shore.

Monhegan Storm © Harold Davis

Posted in Monochrome

Lobsters for Dinner

August 9, 2015 by Harold Davis | 0 Comments

They said, “Have as many lobsters as you want for dinner.” For a while all was lobster bibs, drawn butter, lobsters claws cracking, and the sounds of contented eating. When the sounds of shells cleared, I had eaten three.

Lobsters for Dinner © Harold Davis

Maine is, of course, beautiful in the lush (but brief) summertime—and in places very apt for iphoneography, like this shot in Camden Harbor via Waterlogue.

Camden Harbor © Harold Davis

Posted in iPhone, Photography

Avena Herb Farm

August 8, 2015 by Harold Davis | 0 Comments

My favorite field trip during the Flower Photography workshop I gave at Maine Media Workshops was to Avena Herb Farm in Rockport, Maine. Avena Botanicals has a wonderful garden for photography where they make herbal tinctures, potions and salves the old-fashioned way: by hand, from botanicals (which is what is shown in the photo). But most of all, this is a place of spiritual beauty and serenity. Well worth a visit any time you are in the area!

At Avena Herb Farm © Harold Davis

Posted in Photography

Hope is for hostages

August 8, 2015 by Harold Davis | 0 Comments

Hope is for Hostages © Harold Davis

Posted in Bemusements

Keith Carter and Ben Long

August 7, 2015 by Harold Davis | 0 Comments

Yesterday dinner’s at Maine Media Workshop for faculty and staff was fun, with good eats and great company. Shown are two distinguished MMW colleagues, Keith Carter and Ben Long.

Keith Carter & Ben Long © Harold Davis

Posted in Workshops

Boat from Underneath

August 6, 2015 by Harold Davis | 0 Comments

The workshop studio is in a small complex of buildings. The other buildings all have to do with boat repair and boat sales. This is the reflection in the hull of one boat that is up on metal jacks outside the studio, shot with the a 21mm lens for the wide angle impact. I stopped the lens all the way down to f/22 to generate the starburst effect from the reflection of the sun.

Yacht © Harold Davis

Posted in Photography

Flowers on Black

August 6, 2015 by Harold Davis | 3 Comments

I photographed these flowers just now on black seamless as a demonstration of a bracketed sequence for low-key HDR photography from my Maine Media flower photography workshop.

Flowers on Black © Harold Davis

Posted in Flowers, HDR, Photography

Mandahlia: Dahlia Mandala

August 4, 2015 by Harold Davis | 3 Comments

The basis for this image is a photo I made today during a field trip with my Creative Flower Photography workshop here in Rockport, Maine at the Maine Media Workshops. We paid a visit to the wonderful Endless Summer Dahlia Farm, which markets tubers (bulbs) to “dahlia addicts” across the country. What a great privilege to be able to photograph in this stunning and serene place!

Posted in Flowers

Country Corner and Wild Fish Sex

August 3, 2015 by Harold Davis | 0 Comments

I photographed this image of a bucolic corner here in Rockport, Maine where I am giving a workshop, and processed the image on my iPhone using Waterlogue.

Could this be the same quiet vacation and lobster paradise with all the “wild fish sex”? The capture shown was made in Rockport Harbor this morning early before my class!

Posted in iPhone

Welcome to Maine!

August 2, 2015 by Harold Davis | 5 Comments

My workshop starts this evening, and I’ve had fun today exploring the mid-coast of Maine. I was lucky to visit the Owl’s Head Lighthouse just now, with a functioning light under the jurisdiction of the US Coastguard.