Beyond the Visible
Indian Paintbrush, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's fairly well known that digital sensors are more sensitive to infrared (IR) than either film or the human eye.…
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June 25, 2006
Orange Rose
Orange Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's the details that make this photo for me (you may have to view it larger to see them). For…
June 25, 2006
High Dive
High Dive, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Everyone slept relatively late this morning, and when I came downstairs with the kids the last of the soft morning…
June 23, 2006
Beneath the Dahlia
Beneath the Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. We are trained to view flowers by looking down at them. Or, on occasion, at the level of the…
June 21, 2006
Lobelia Drop
Lobelia Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I took this photograph of a water drop on a lobelia with my 105mm macro lens handheld at 1/60 of…
June 20, 2006
Rose Heart
Rose Heart, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Here are two roses with water drops from my garden for your viewing pleasure. The rose on top is a…
June 15, 2006
Slow Flash
Dahlia Glowing, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. "Slow flash" is an oxymoron because there can be no such thing as a slow flash exposure. A flash duration…
June 13, 2006
Dahlia Days
Red Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Dahlias are interesting me lately. I love their symmetry, flamboyance, and elegance. I photographed this red dwarf dahlia head-on with…
June 13, 2006
White Rose
White Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. A white rose is a potent symbol. A symbol of what? Perhaps of love, purity, and chastity. But historically the…
June 12, 2006
Heart Like a Mallow
Heart Like a Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Mallows are annuals or perennials of the Malvaceae family. Spreading from their origins in Southern Europe, they've given…
June 12, 2006
Wet Dahlia
Wet Dahlia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. How lucious to come downstairs and see everything setup for a Father's Day celebration! Even though they were a week…
June 11, 2006
A Classical Zinnia
Zinnia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is another photograph using classical techniques (like this delphinium): tripod mounted, high depth-of-field, moderately long exposure, head-on point-of-view. (If you…
June 11, 2006
Songbird
Songbird, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a columbine, called a Songbird Columbine, that I photographed today in classical mode using a long macro lens, high…
June 9, 2006
Poppy in the Sun
Poppy in the Sun, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this poppy early this morning in my garden. It is a papaver somniferum, or opium poppy,…
June 6, 2006
Noon a Purple Glow
Noon a Purple Glow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I named this photo using a line from a William Butler Yeats poem Lake Isle of Innisfree (the…
June 5, 2006
Spiral in a Mallow
Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a photograph at fairly high magnification (about 8:1) of an annual Mallow flower, Lavatera trimestris. I photographed it today…
June 2, 2006
Raise High the ISO, Digital Photographic Craftspeople!
Calochortus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Wild flowers---like the Calochortus above, also sometimes called a Mariposa Lily---grow along Hite's Cove Trail above the South Fork of the…
May 31, 2006
Snow Plant
Snow Plant, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The snow plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, is really pretty amazing. Coming up out of snow or forest undergrowth, it produces no…
May 30, 2006