digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Before dawn on what would become a hot, steamy Berlin summer day. We approached the Brandenburg Gate on foot, dodging multiple lines of traffic, as the sun blearily rose through…
I wanted to share a special limited-time opportunity for nature and landscape photographers. I’ve had the pleasure of teaching for Base Camp Photo Club, and for a short time, my…
The Meyer Optik Goerlitz Lydith 30mm f/3.5 lens is a modern remake of an older optical design that is known for its ability to create "soap bubble" bokeh. To create…
This has been a spring for watching my garden grow, and enjoying the beautiful shapes and colors that nature creates. It has been my great pleasure to tend the garden.…
Here's my entire series of six miscellaneous United States postage stamps, shown on a page of the current USA Philatelic Magazine. The stamps are © USPS and the images are…
I have a new, old lens. It is a Canon 50mm TV f/0.95 lens, in some circles known as the "Dream Lens" because of its dreamy bokeh at f/0.95. The…
4-cent Angel’s Trumpets Per the USPS: This 4-cent stamp follows the 2024 release of other low-denomination flower stamps: the 1-cent Fringed Tulip, 2-cent Daffodils, 3-cent Peonies, 5-cent Red Tulips and…
Please consider joining us for our new photography tour: Great Gardens of Japan: A Photographic and Botanical Journey with Harold Davis. We'll be posting a complete itinerary and opening registration…
This Japanese white pine with its imposing roots was originally a bonsai given by the 11th Tokugawa Shogun, Ienari, to the ninth lord of Takamatsu, Matsudaira Yorihiro, in Edo (Tokyo)…
Exiled to remote Shikoku, the sad samurai played the Biwa beneath this waterfall in melancholy melodies of their distant home.
Creating Compelling Compositions Masterclass is an online workshop I will be giving on December 15, 2025 at 10am PT. Click here to register. My workshop is sponsored by The Nook, and…
The other day I set out to create a mandala using flower petals on my light box. The mandala uses petals that I plucked from alstroemeria, with the center formed…
I had great fun yesterday photographing a rose in my garden after an overnight shower. In the morning, the rose had wonderful, small water drops on its petals. I used…
I'm lucky enough to have scored a Leica Noctilux 50mm f/0.95 lens (used, but in excellent condition). The lens is most interesting I think wide-open at f/0.95. Yes, you read…
Before planting the beast of a cactus in a pot along our front porch, I photographed the plant in its black, plastic pot indoors using my Leica Monochrom M11 with…
The Split Rock Plant (Pleiospilos nelli) looks for all the world like it is made of small stones, each one dabbed with dots (see the black and white images at…
To make these portraits of an up-close-and-personal Western sword fern (Polystichum munitum) frond beginning to unfurl, I used my 135mm lens on a bellows. This is the same setup I…