Floral Medley Variations
Floral Medley Variations, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a variation of the Floral Medley I shot back in February; I just got around to processing…
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March 24, 2010
Monochromatic Ranunculus
Monochromatic Ranunculus, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Sometimes old-fashioned black and white works best. Not that there's anything really old-fashioned about digital monochromatic imagery. As I explain…
March 23, 2010
Ranunculus Asiaticus
Ranunculus Asiaticus, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The Ranunculus plant came home with me for the garden. But first I snipped this bud. I photographed the blossom…
March 22, 2010
White Ranunculus
White Ranunculus, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Before planted, I pruned this Ranunculus blossom, placed it in a thin vase, and surrounded the vase with black velvet.…
March 13, 2010
Magnolia World
Magnolia World, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is another Lensbaby fisheye. I put the camera on tripod up very close to the magnolia tree and used…
March 5, 2010
Lensbaby Fisheye
Leucospermum Fisheye, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a close-up fisheye of my Leucospermum Scarlet Ribbons. I photographed the flower with the Lensbaby Composer and the…
March 4, 2010
Coiled, Tied and Knotted
Coiled, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Bondage, as practiced in the plant kingdom, can be an involuntary affair. A Passiflora vine makes beautiful flowers, but it is…
March 2, 2010
Blue Velvet
Life Is Full of Beauty, photo by Harold Davis. In David Lynch's wonderfully creepy classic film Blue Velvet you know you've entered an alternative and not altogether wholesame nether world…
February 21, 2010
Pink Rose 2
Pink Rose 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I forgot to blog this pink rose from about a month ago; better late than never. Particularly when I…
February 18, 2010
Solarized Hellebore
Solarized Hellebore, photo by Harold Davis. Solarization in photography reverses blacks and whites. Also called the Sabattier effect, in the chemical darkroom solarization was achieved by exposing an already exposed…
February 18, 2010
Hellebore Curves
Hellebore Curves, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Flowers are beautiful---although why they seem so beautiful to us humans is an interesting question. But when I photograph flowers…
February 17, 2010
Lenten Cross
Lenten Cross, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Phyllis arranged the hellebore medley I photographed earlier into a regular pattern, with the results you see. The Lenten Rose…
February 13, 2010
Hellebore Medley
Hellebore Medley, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Like Flower Medley, I photographed these Hellebores looking straight down. The Hellebore blossoms from my garden were floating in a…
February 9, 2010
Floral Medley
Floral Medley, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This floral medley contains roses, a camellia, and three varieties of hellebore. The hellebores and camellia are from my garden,…
February 6, 2010
White Tulips
White Tulips, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Shot with a Lensbaby Composer and the standard glass optic, using the f/4 aperture ring. I love my Lensbaby, a…
January 27, 2010
Camellia Blossoms
Camellia sasangua 'Kanjiro', photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the gray weather of mid-January it can be hard to find flowers to photograph outdoors in the San…
January 21, 2010
Pink Rose
Pink Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this pink rose by morning sunlight, using a mirror and some white board to reflect the sunlight streaming…
January 8, 2010
Happy New Decade
Eye of the Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a more extended version of Kiss from a Rose presented with my best wishes for a…
December 31, 2009