Snarky Snapdragon
I wouldn't want to get snarky with this snapdragon, which I found and photographed in our garden today. It's funny when you point your lens and something really small how…
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November 1, 2005
Enough with the Irises!
A reader writes: "I enjoy regularly reading your photoblog, and have learned much about digital photography from your book [Digital Photography Digital Field Guide], but enough with these iris pictures.…
October 28, 2005
Winged Iris
Winged Iris, photo by Harold Davis. Irises here, there, and everywhere. I am enjoying photographing this very special flower, it is one of my favorites. The Iris petals in this…
October 28, 2005
Digital Photography Cyborg
I like saying that digital photography is a cyborg: one part photography and one part computer. To be a good digital photographer, you should be skilled at both parts of…
October 27, 2005
Iris Tongue
Iris Tongue, photo by Harold Davis. I am continuing to photograph the irises today. They are so beautiful, and look good when positioned with a red lily for background color.…
October 27, 2005
Iris
Whale Song of the Iris, photo by Harold Davis. Phyllis got me some fresh Iris (from Trader Joe's, not our garden!) and I've been photographing them as they open...
October 26, 2005
Cyclamen
Cyclamen Wet, photo by Harold Davis. Nicky always loves gardening with me, or at least his idea of gardening with me. Which I think means we both put on our…
October 26, 2005
Inside the Lily
Inside the Lily, photo by Harold Davis. It's amazing how different things look really close-up! Here's a photo from inside a lily, of its stamen.
October 23, 2005
Secret Life of Dandelions
Dandelion 8, photo by Harold Davis. Mostly, of course, I regard the dandelions as a pest in the garden. The kids love to blow them when they've gone to seed…
October 22, 2005
Nietzsche and a Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea Flower, photo by Harold Davis. This picture shows the flower of the bougainvillea. The color of this plant comes from the wonderful leaves, not the small white-yellow flower you…
October 16, 2005
Back to the Macro
Coreopsis, photo by Harold Davis. You can take the boy out of the macro, but you can't take the macro out of the boy! On my recent trip there were…
October 12, 2005
Bud ‘n Bloom
Bloom, photo by Harold Davis. My garden doesn't know yet that it is supposed to be autumn. If ever there really is an autumn in this Pacific micro climate. Our…
October 1, 2005
Glad to Be a Gladiola
Gladiola, photo by Harold Davis. I have been photographing gladioluses today. A gladiola, or gladiolus, is a glad thing. This member of the Iris family is so colorful and always…
September 26, 2005
Oh Cecil, We Hardly Knew Ye!
Cecil Bruner Rose, photo by Harold Davis. This is a Cecil Bruner rose from my planting of about five or six years ago. What turns out is that Cecil Bruners…
September 24, 2005
A Fire Burns within Each Flower
A Fire Burns within Each Flower, photo by Harold Davis. This succulent flower had a glorious red color when I got up close to it. Triumphant! It seems that my…
September 21, 2005
Heart of an Artichoke
Artichoke Flower 3, photo by Harold Davis. This is an extreme close-up of an artichoke flower. The artichoke plant grows in our vegitable garden, and is a perennial. There is…
September 18, 2005
Heart of a Flower
Heart of a Zinnia, photo by Harold Davis. More in the "how close can you go" series in my garden. This photo was taken with my Nikon D70 SLR with…
September 16, 2005
Orange Zinnia
Orange Zinnia, photo by Harold Davis. This is one of the series of close macros I shot in my garden with my macro lens and 6X combined extension tubes. The…
September 15, 2005