Gaillardia Gone to Seed
Gaillardia Gone to Seed, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a flatbed scan of the seed pods of Gaillardia. (You can see one of these pods…
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September 24, 2008
Gaillardia Caucus
Gaillardia Caucus, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Yesterday was the first rain of the season, a light mist that made the garden wet and saturated colors under…
September 20, 2008
Cala Lily Flute
Cala Lily Flute, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I've been experimenting with monochrome (black and white) images of flowers and shells. These images start in…
September 12, 2008
Fresco Flower
[Note: this is a reposting of a story originally published in August 2005.] Fresco Flower, photo by Harold Davis. I thought this photo looked like a painting when I took…
August 18, 2008
Sexy Angel Face
Sexy Angel Face, photo by Harold Davis. This is an Angel Face rose from my garden. I think it is so sexy! Here's another photo of the same rose bud,…
August 14, 2008
Fourth of July Rose
Fourth of July Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: For a special project I needed macro photos of flowers showing selective focus. I photographed this…
August 9, 2008
Spiral into Sunflower
Spiral into Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: There are spirals in nature and grand artist-created spirals like Robert Smithson's massive spiral jetty. There are…
July 28, 2008
Sunflower
Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I grew this delicious Sunflower for the purposes of photography. Putting it on a black velvet background, I made…
July 26, 2008
Gaillardia in Flight
Gaillardia in Flight, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Gaillardia in flight...afternoon delight. Well, I did take the images in this composite in the afternoon, and Gaillardia is…
July 15, 2008
Zeiss 100mm f/2 Macro Lens
Gaillardia, Papaver, and Iris, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I bought a Zeiss Macro 100mm f/2 ZF Makro-Planar T* Manual Focus Lens to use with…
July 8, 2008
Revelation and Hiding
Crown of Hydrangea, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Several years ago I planted a couple of exotic hydrangea plants in the shade in my front garden. (I…
July 1, 2008
Balloon Flower on Black
Balloon Flower on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this Balloon flower and jasmine arrangement on a black background. Unlike Playcodon and Jasminum, where I…
June 21, 2008
Platycodon and Jasminum
Platycodon and Jasminum, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a photo-composite created using several captures of a Balloon flower (Platycodon) surrounded by Jasmine on a white…
June 19, 2008
Hydrangea
Hydrangea Sheila blooms in the shade of my garden. I snipped this crown of flowers, and brought it inside to play with. The image combines two captures, both exposed for…
June 15, 2008
Sunflower and Bottle
Sunflower and Bottle, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I've been growing sunflowers for photography in a raised bed along the warm, southwestern side of our house. I…
June 7, 2008
Day Lily in Morning Dew
Day Lily in Morning Dew, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the early morning, in a shady nook in my garden, I found this day lily in…
June 3, 2008
Gladiolus and Light Painting
Gladiolus 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There's a clump of these wonderful gladiolas that grow in my garden this time of year. I cut this stem,…
June 2, 2008
Iris Panel
Iris Panel, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A clump of irises in my garden have the wonderful variegated stems you see in this photo. I wanted to…
June 1, 2008