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…
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December 26, 2009
Escape from the Shadows
Escape from the Shadows, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A few weeks ago there was a freak snowstorm in the coastal hills above Berkeley and Oakland, California.…
December 21, 2009
Coastal Range Snow
Coastal Range Snow, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It rained most of the night, and towards morning got cold enough to snow at the crest of the…
December 7, 2009
Map of a Life
Map of a Life, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I don't know very much about this old woman. I photographed her in Las Terrazas, Cuba---part ecology preserve…
November 23, 2009
Milk Scam
Milk Scam, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Across the street from the Cuban capitolio nacional under a dark and crumbling arcade a mother and two daughters watched…
November 12, 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
Piperii Mori
Piper Mori 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Photographer Edward Weston's son Brett (also a gifted photographer) had the unfortunate habit of eating still life subjects---such as…
October 6, 2009
Dark Shore
Dark Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the dense fog and gathering night, the turbulent ocean definitely seemed a force to be reckoned with. Alone at…
September 30, 2009
Seeds
Seeds, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I photographed these seeds on a white piece of paper. The idea was to use the lighting to create a whole…
September 21, 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
Mustard Green
Mustard Green, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In color, this leaf looked like some green and luminous sea creature, complete with curling tentacles. It was with some…
September 15, 2009
Godetia on Paper
Godetia on Paper, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Following the egg yolk separator, more shadow play.
September 12, 2009
Egg Yolk Separator
Egg Yolk Separator, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is an old-fashioned egg yolk separator. Yes, there really is such a thing! Phyllis found it in one…
September 11, 2009
Cadillac
Cadillac, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I like the way the grill of this 1940 car looks almost abstract, and I thought it very fitting to show…
September 10, 2009
Shadowlands
I've been playing with shadows. The idea is to construct compositions where the shadow is as important (or more important) than the object creating the shadow. Sometimes an object and…
August 29, 2009
Trees in the Fog
Trees in the Fog, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In blackest night, from the parking lot, in the wet and dripping fog, I looked at the silhouetted…
July 20, 2009
Surf, Kirby Cove
Surf, Kirby Cove, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On a recent overcast evening, with my guest from Finland, on a bluff above Kirby Cove, I waited for…
June 3, 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