Asiatic Lily Bouquet, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this interesting mixed Lily bouquet on black velvet, with natural daylight and a tungsten spot. As always…
Close Encounters with Calypso 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In Greek mythology, Calypso was a water nymph. In ancient Greek, calypso (Καλυψώ) was a form of…
Study in Camellia, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Sometimes simple is best. This is a straightforward, unmanipulated shot. I used basic lighting and a black background to…
Red Cyclamen, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Where the composition of a photo is about pattern, a single color often plays an important role. Cases in point:…
Nectar of Lily, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Focus, in the sense of focusing the lens, is one of the primary variables in a photograph under the…
Lily in a Green Vase, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Flowers in our house often do double duty, and this lily is no exception. Purchased as part…
Moby Dick, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Looking through the lens at the rain-drenched petals of this white cyclamen, I was reminded of something great and white...maybe…
I've written about using noise for aesthetic purposes. I've also explored the possibility that noise generated by boosting a camera's sensitivity (ISO) will become a historical artifact and thing of…
Hellebore on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The image above was the first version of this photo. I used a flourescent light table as my illumination…
Rose Bouquet from Above, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a subsequent photo of the bouquet of roses, with the buds a bit more open, and…
Bouquet of Roses, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a bouquet of multicolored roses for my beautiful wife, Phyllis. She deserves all the flowers in the…
Lensbaby Poppy 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. After photographing a Papaver nudicaule being born, for the next few days I continued in the same damn the…
Being Born, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Within the short life span of the poppy flower (Papaver nudicaule shown here), being born, or emerging from the pod,…
Hanging On, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In a sunny intermission between squalls of rain I photographed this rain drop hanging onto a climbing geranium blossom. Even…
Trillium, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this tiny and wonderful wild Trillium in Steep Ravine last spring, and Phyllis just recently masked it onto black.…
Paper White on Black, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We used the same black velvet background as I'd used with the sunflower. We used a pin to…
Sunflower, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed this sunflower as part of an ongoing project for a client. To achieve the simple look of this image,…
Petals, image by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We were proofing a 176 page book--Light and Exposure for Digital Photographers from O'Reilly--on our Epson 4800 printer using rolls of…