A bouquet of luscious white roses came home one day. The interior curves of these roses attracted me with their grace and serenity, and I decided to photograph them close-up…
I have been photographing Irises close-up and personal. Irises are wonderful flowers, and I come back to them quite a bit. With these images, I used a simple setup with…
I've written about looking through my viewfinder with a macro lens on the camera and navigating a new country. The topography and contours of this "country" are unknown, and it…
Yesterday I spent most of my day building a mandala from flower petals on my light box. I used petals from alstroemeria, chrysanthemum, gerbera, some lobelia from the garden, and…
I am proud to have five of my images reproduced in 2024 as United States postage stamps. As you can see, these are "miscellaneous" low denomination stamps, with values of…
I have been photographing some stunning white peonies. For this flower, the internal cluster is in a pretty unusual formation. Part of the idea of photographing this flower on the…
A client ordered a large print of my Pale Garden image. With the first test print, Phyllis and I could see that Pale Garden needed to be retouched. If you look closely at the…
I've stumbled into a new series of flower images. These images have in common the appearance of "artful randomness." They are supposed to seem casual and minimally arranged. But the…
Translucent Flora: Photographs by Harold Davis is an exhibition at the San Francisco Botanical Garden Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture, June – September 2023 Join us for the Artists’…
Having a number of teenagers and twenty-somethings in the house exposes me to some (understandable) pessimism about life, society, and the future. These are indeed strange times. We---and our kids---have…
How wonderful to be photographing flowers from my garden at this time of year when the world comes to life and all the colors glow and are so glorious!
This Rojasianthe superba, sometimes called "White Sunflower Tree," was growing in the entry garden of San Francisco Botanical Garden, where (with permission) I cut this specimen. The seeds of Rojasianthe…
What is love? It is, of course, a "many-splendored" thing: supple, wonderful, wistful, and maybe all of these at once and maybe more. The passionate rush of dopamine when encountering…
I'm proud of our bush Peony. For a toddler---I planted it close to two years ago---it certainly produced a huge and beautiful flower. It's hard to get a sense of…
A great deal of our energy lately has gone into clearing my parents' house to make it ready for sale. This is a thankless task and emotionally very difficult. Fortunately,…
A single blossom from my garden is apparently the essence of simplicity. The power of these images of flower blossoms relies on this apparent simplicity: you are supposedly looking at…
My flowers are like frilly Goddesses. But not in a fey way, or an overly cute way. The textures these blossoms provide could almost be fabrics or garments. The beauty…
In the wake of the death of my parents, I created a new garden on the shaded side of our house. This is a mostly ignored narrow strip between our…