Hotel Room with a View
I like to photograph from my hotel room, and I make a point of requesting rooms with a view. Sometimes this works. There's nothing particularly characteristic of Milan, Italy in…
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October 31, 2016
Photographers! France! April!
We are looking for a (very) few good photographers (or a photographer and spouse) to join our small, exclusive group going to the southwest of France in April, 2017. Click…
October 30, 2016
Morning Blue
The special characteristics of light at sunset---first the "golden hour," followed by the "blue hour"---are well known to all serious landscape photographers. Indeed, the quality of the light and the…
October 29, 2016
Harold Davis Upcoming Workshops
I'm just back from a photographic trip to Italy. You can see a couple of the images I processed first by clicking Dawn on Lake Como, Tuscan Landscape, and Duomo…
October 28, 2016
Bramante Stairs
The Bramante Stairs is a double helix staircase, meaning it consists of two independent helical stairs in the same vertical space, allowing one person to ascend and another to descend, without…
October 27, 2016
Tuscan Field
This field has been plowed. It is autumn, and the land is bare, waiting in lengthy passivity for the new crops of spring to begin to show. The patterns in…
October 27, 2016
View from a San Gimignano Tower
I've just got home and am recovering from a 26-hour day of travel, and the nine hours of jet lag between the Bay area and Italy. That said, it was…
October 26, 2016
Rescued from the Mud
It's my personality for my "eyes to be bigger than my stomach," my artistic ego to be large, and my ability to say no to a possible photo nil regardless…
October 22, 2016
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Visiting the Vatican Museum is an affair of moving with and through crowds. Most are in densely packed "schools of fish" (in tour groups). Others lumber slowly, couples or small…
October 21, 2016
Il Campo, Siena
Il Campo is the central square in Siena, Italy---famous for its horse races, as a hang-out spot, and as a demonstration of the civic power of the historic republic of…
October 20, 2016
Clerestory Window
This large clerestory window in the Duomo in Trento, Italy struck me as quite like a mandala with bright, overcast light shining through. I underexposed the image to emphasize the effect. The…
October 19, 2016
Autumn on the Slopes of Tuscany
Who knew you could ski in Tuscany (at least in the winter)? I photographed these beautiful autumn trees on the upper slopes of Monte Amiata. This is the dominate peak…
October 18, 2016
Guitar Solo
From the tower hanging above the central piazza in the Tuscan hill town of Montepulciano, I heard lucid guitar chords rising on the wind. I looked down to find the musician.…
October 17, 2016
Tuscan Landscape
Rising not quite with the sun, on my way over to the breakfast room, I saw the landscape below with patches of fog, a veritable pattern of lights and darks,…
October 15, 2016
San Gimignano in the Rain
Today was a long day! I left Milan in the morning, walked across the street to the train station, and took the express to Florence. In Florence I took a…
October 14, 2016
Heart of the Dolomites
The Dolomites, in northeastern Italy, are a spectacular range of pinnacles forming the southern reaches of the Alps. These mountains have characteristically grand rock formations, and if you like landscape…
October 13, 2016
Duomo di Pavia
The ancient Lombard city of Pavia lies on the Ticino River near its confluence with the Po. Pavia is about twenty miles south of Milan. A long time ago, Pavia…
October 12, 2016
Dawn on Lake Como
I've been in Italy only a couple of days, and already it seems like there have been some incredible adventures (but not much sleep). This morning I woke in the…
October 8, 2016