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Chasing Waterfalls
Above Ryuzu Falls © Harold Davis

Chasing Waterfalls

I've never understood the lyrics of the song "Don't go chasing waterfalls." Apparently, if you Google it, the lyric to this catchy tune (I've worked out to its beat at…

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Socks Davis
Socks Davis © Harold Davis

Socks Davis

Meet Socks, our three-month-old kitty and the newest member of the Davis family!

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Eye of the Dragon
Eye of the Dragon © Harold Davis

Eye of the Dragon

Eye of the Dragon, shown below, is a Photoshop composite of an extreme close-up of a dahlia blossom and my left eye. For more about the image of my eye,…

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Solar Rotation Mandala
Solar Rotation Mandala Inversion © Harold Davis

Solar Rotation Mandala

As many of you know, I love to create mandalas on my light box using flowers. The idea behind Solar Rotation Mandala was to create a "solar system" circling the central…

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Wreck of the Point Reyes
Wreck of the Point Reyes © Harold Davis

Wreck of the Point Reyes

Last week I stopped by wreck of the Point Reyes fishing trawler, beached near Inverness, California. I first started photographing the boat in roughly 2005, most times on my way…

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Coins
Coin © Harold Davis

Coins

I wanted to see how close I could get with reasonable resolution using the Leica M11 Monochrom. The upper photo of the coin is somewhere between 5:1 and 10:1, meaning…

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Blowing in the Wind
Triumph of Beauty over Despair © Harold Davis

Blowing in the Wind

I've talked---and written---about designing a structure behind an apparently free-form image. With flower photography on a light box, possible forms this structure can take include a bouquet, a garden patch…

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Iris
© Harold Davis

Iris

Mostly the irises in my garden have already bloomed for the year. But this one is an exception! And exceptional! I love the textures and folds in this wonderful flower.…

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Derreen Garden
Derreen Garden © Harold Davis

Derreen Garden

It was lightly raining, more like a heavy mist, when we visited Derreen Garden in Lauragh, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. The history of this garden is interesting. In the 1870s,…

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County Kerry
County Kerry © Harold Davis

County Kerry

What does County Kerry, Ireland have in common with my hometown, Berkeley in California? One thing in common is infinitely changeable weather. As in the San Francisco area, in County…

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