Curvature
Curvature, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: A brisk, cold wind blew as the sun set over the Pacific. Mark and I were perched on the…
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September 23, 2008
Between Earth and Sky
Between Earth and Sky, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. On our way home from a sunset-to-night hike on the Tomales Point fork of Point Reyes, Mark and…
September 22, 2008
Nicky with Face Painting
Nicky with Face Painting, photo by Harold Davis. Nicky came home from camp at Berkeley Montessori with this cute face painting of a mouse, and I couldn't resist photographing his…
August 22, 2008
A Walk on the Wild Side
[Note: this is a reposting of a story originally published in July 2005.] © Harold Davis - Thousand Islands Lake, Ansel Adams Wilderness, July 2, 2005 About a week ago…
August 15, 2008
Fog on the Headlands
Fog on the Headlands, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The other day Mark and I climbed Slacker Ridge, and watched the early evening fog pour over Marin…
August 12, 2008
Bringing Katie Rose Home
It took Phileas Fogg eighty days to go around the world in the Jules Verne novel, and it's been eighty days and change since the birth of Katie Rose. Our…
August 5, 2008
Tracks Not Taken
Tracks Not Taken, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is another photo of the abandoned naval shipyards on Mare Island. I like the conjunction of tracks and…
August 2, 2008
Ghosts of Mare Island
Ghosts, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mare Island, a peninsula across the Napa River from Vallejo, California, was the site of the first naval shipyard on the…
July 21, 2008
Mathew’s Fourth Birthday
Mathew at Step One, photo by Harold Davis. Yesterday was Mathew's fourth birthday. Despite the stress of Katie Rose's birth, not to mention our commutes back and forth to the…
July 11, 2008
Zeiss 100mm f/2 Macro Lens
Gaillardia, Papaver, and Iris, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I bought a Zeiss Macro 100mm f/2 ZF Makro-Planar T* Manual Focus Lens to use with…
July 8, 2008
Surf and Stars
We've had a couple of spells of really warm weather lately. This is an unusual pattern for the San Francisco Bay area in summer. It is well known that summer…
June 25, 2008
Ringing Cedars Covers
In November of 2007, while I was clambering around Zion Canyon at night, exploring the Wave, and getting lost in the desert, Phyllis fielded a business call from Ringing Cedars…
June 22, 2008
Mount Tamalpais from Corte Madera Creek
Mount Tamalpais from Corte Madera Creek, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. A long, happy, tiring, and exciting day began for me with a visit with my three…
June 16, 2008
Katie’s Hand
Katie's Hand, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Katie's hands are tiny, mobile, expressive, and elegant. Each hand is a perfectly formed minature. Katie Rose gesticulates with her…
June 3, 2008
Under the Golden Gate Bridge
Underneath the Golden Gate Bridge, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. With the top floor deck of Fort Point repaired and open to the public, it's now possible…
February 25, 2008
Hayward Marsh
Hayward Marsh, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The San Mateo Bridge crosses San Francisco Bay roughly half way between San Francisco and San Jose. Many commuters rushing…
February 21, 2008
Processing Noise
I've been shooting in low light at ISO 6400, partly on the grounds that my Nikon D300 is remarkably low noise, and partly on the grounds that noise can be…
February 14, 2008
Reflections, Downtown Oakland
Reflections, Downtown Oakland, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Mark and I wandered downtown Oakland with our cameras, and we were struck by these reflections in the curved…
December 27, 2007