Patterns on a Wall
Patterns on a Wall, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The start for this image (above) is a photo of a peeling stucco wall (below). I photographed the…
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February 6, 2007
Subtle Pleasures
Forest, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The patterns in this image of the forest in snow don't make for a grand statement. The pleasures, particularly when viewed…
December 6, 2006
Abstraction
Waves 1, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. As Julian and I clambered around Bodega Head, I look down at the vast, windswept, mis-named Pacific Ocean below. I…
November 13, 2006
Turkey Feather
Turkey Feather, photo by Harold Davis. View this photogram larger. This turkey feather looks to me almost like a strange textile construction!
September 25, 2006
Currents of Light
Currents of Light, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I sat by the banks of the Tulomne River in the wilderness of Yosemite's backcountry. Julian played on the…
August 23, 2006
My Favorite Worlds
Getting the Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. If you've been reading my blog, you'll know that I've been photographing water drops. And that for me, each…
August 5, 2006
Photographers of a Feather
Hawk Feather, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Phyllis and I left the kids with Rachel on Sunday and went for a hike in Tilden Park. We found…
July 31, 2006
Pattern and Scale
Web-a-licious, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Compositionally, a photograph without a central item of particular interest can work when the photo is about a distinctive pattern. The…
July 29, 2006
Echinacea Harvest Moon
Echinacea Harvest Moon, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I have been growing echinacea---also called coneflowers---in my garden because they are so spectacular to photograph. This one is…
July 20, 2006
Blind Shadow
Blind Shadow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The late afternoon sun streams in strongly through my windows that face northwest at this time of year. I shut…
June 8, 2006
Yucca Flower
Flowering Yucca, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Driving down the dramatic road from Grant Grove into Kings Canyon, Julian and I descended through a gentle but steady…
May 27, 2006
Worlds without End
Worlds without End, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Everytime I point my lens at water drops on a spider web, I think of worlds within worlds and…
May 15, 2006
Waves on the Shore
Waves on the Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The waves on the shore make a pattern like lace or some wonderful texture. Julian and I visited…
April 18, 2006
Fire in Ice
Morning Merced Ice, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. If everything has embedded within it an opposite and contrary self, then this ice must contain fire at the…
March 27, 2006
Blue Feather
Blue Feather, Boulder, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I found this beautiful blue feather on a rather grubby street corner of Boulder, Colorado. Across from the ritzy…
March 3, 2006
Stars Like Diamonds
Stars Like Diamonds, photo by Harold Davis. View this photomacrograph larger. Yesterday after the rain had ended I went out with my rig. I stopped along the outer fence of…
February 3, 2006
Raindrops Keep Falling
Falling, photo by Harold Davis. View photo larger. It rained last night. Between dropping the kids off at school and getting ready to go across the Bay to MacWorld, I…
January 11, 2006
Big Rock Candy Mountains
Guzmania 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I've photographed this bromeliad flower (it is a Guzmania hybrid) over the last couple of days at Berkeley Hort. The…
January 10, 2006