digital photography: techniques: thoughts: photographs
Zinnia, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is another photograph using classical techniques (like this delphinium): tripod mounted, high depth-of-field, moderately long exposure, head-on point-of-view. (If you…
Songbird, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a columbine, called a Songbird Columbine, that I photographed today in classical mode using a long macro lens, high…
Begonia Reflection, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a water drop at the bottom of the hanging begonia basket that I got Phyllis for Mother's Day.…
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…
Sunshine and Water Drops on a Papaver Stem, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed these water drops on a poppy stem backlit by the early morning…
Death Valley Sunrise 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I originally blogged this photograph here. In the 1980s, when I was a photographer based in New York…
Lost in the Funhouse, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It's very hard with a photo like this water drop on my leucospermum to see what one is…
Poppy in the Sun, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I photographed this poppy early this morning in my garden. It is a papaver somniferum, or opium poppy,…
Noon a Purple Glow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I named this photo using a line from a William Butler Yeats poem Lake Isle of Innisfree (the…
Irrigation 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Having spent a great deal of time observing water drops up close and personal, I am firmly convinced that water…
White Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. I was caught up in photographing the spiral deep inside a pink mallow. Then I looked up and noticed this…
Mallow, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. This is a photograph at fairly high magnification (about 8:1) of an annual Mallow flower, Lavatera trimestris. I photographed it today…
Yan-o-pah, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Every view in Yosemite Valley has probably been photographed, and most views more than once. The famous vistas have been photographed…
Butterflies on a Sock above Vernal Falls, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. After climbing the Mist Trail, we were thoroughly soaked. The great rock platform on top…
Rainbow on the Mist Trail, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Part of the fun of climbing the stairs of the Mist Trail to the top of Vernal…
Calochortus, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. Wild flowers---like the Calochortus above, also sometimes called a Mariposa Lily---grow along Hite's Cove Trail above the South Fork of the…
Snow Plant, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. The snow plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, is really pretty amazing. Coming up out of snow or forest undergrowth, it produces no…
View from Moro Rock, photo by Harold Davis. View this photograph larger. It had been raining for our first two days in Sequoia, and Julian was getting "squirelly." Well, I…