Kiss From A Rose
Kiss from a Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The lighting, photography, and post-processing of this image all had the same goal: to increase saturation and tonal…
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December 28, 2009
Remembrance of Things Past
Remembrance of Things Past, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a high-key image, in the sense that it is predominantly overexposed from the perspective of a…
December 26, 2009
Curves
Curves, photo by Harold Davis.View this image larger. Here's another, somewhat softer version of my variegated rose.
December 14, 2009
Structure of Rose
Structure of Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As flowers go, roses tend to present interesting three-dimensional curvilinear spaces. Looking head-on at a rose is different in…
December 7, 2009
Flower Macros
Echinacea Pink Double Delight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Flower macros are a personal subject that I return to over and over again with great joy. The…
November 4, 2009
Dahlia in Decay
Dahlia in Decay, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Like people, flowers are beautiful even when imperfect. Perhaps particularly when they are imperfect. If you search for a…
October 23, 2009
Ghost Flower
Ghost Flower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The monochrome White Dahlia came from a color image. A high key color image, and one that didn't have much…
October 16, 2009
White Dahlia
White Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I wasn't planning to photograph any more flowers yesterday. Between kids and work things had been hectic indeed. But when…
October 15, 2009
Hope
Echinacea purpurea Hope, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo shows a Coneflower, Echinacea purpurea 'Hope'. This a patented hybrid, with a portion of each sale donated…
October 13, 2009
Becoming Echinacea
Becoming Echinacea 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. When I saw this Echinacea bud, I knew the image would have to be black and white because the…
September 20, 2009
No Tyranny Can Endure Forever
Smart Weed, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. However strong the walls they build, there are always cracks. Freedom is like a weed---in this case Polyganum, also called…
September 16, 2009
Harold Davis on KQED TV
A story on my floral photography aired recently on local public TV. Here's the segment: QUEST on KQED Public Media. Here's a link to the story on the web: http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/your-photos-on-quest-harold-davis.…
July 15, 2009
Nigella Recto and Verso
Nigella Recto, photo by Harold Davis. This is the front and back (recto above, and verso below) of a small flower with an incredibly complex structure, a Negilla. The common…
June 8, 2009
Simple Poppy
Simple Poppy, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a simple Papaver Rhoeas, photographed with an unvarnished macro lens for depth-of-field. The flower may be simple, and…
June 6, 2009
Pagoda of Poppies
Pagoda of Poppies, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I used my 200mm f/4 telephoto macro lens to focus on the more distant poppies while letting…
June 1, 2009
Variegated Gladiolas
Variegated Gladiolas, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There's a lovely clump of variegated gladolias in the garden. Partly shaded by a climbing rose, water drops cling to…
May 28, 2009
Papaver Drops
Papaver Drops, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the garden, water drops hang from a poppy bud, swinging at the end of its stem. Reflected in the…
May 27, 2009
Poppy Core
Poppy Core, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this poppy core handheld in my garden in the late afternoon. I used my 100mm macro lens at…
May 24, 2009