Who knew that tulip stems could curl symmetrically with four looping branches? When I saw this, it reminded me of some of the flora photographed by Karl Blossfeldt. Blossfeldt's original…
This was a great Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop this weekend, with nice folks who are creative photographers coming from many places around the world. I hope they get safely…
Dogwood Flowers in a Bowl and Poppies and Echinaceas were both photographed with my iPhone camera. These were arrangements that were "collateral damage" to having flowers around from my garden…
This pair of images consists of a light box composition on white, and its LAB L-channel inversion on black. My thoughts are turning to Photographing Flowers for Transparency, as I…
For me, photography is about passion, vision, and seeing the world closely. Oh, I could give you some technical information about how this image was made. For example, I could…
The idea of this series of photos, created in collaboration with the model A Nude Muse, was to create images that were simultaneously attractive, eerie, uncanny, and otherworldly. Ignoring the…
This image is an LAB inversion of the L-channel of Poppies Dancing, with blacks and white interchanged.
Visit Paris in the Spring with a small group of photographers. Early-bird discount applies. Click here for more information.
This is a breakfast avocado burrito that Phyllis made for Nicky, who is a vegetarian. Hopefully, Anthony Bourdain, who very sadly died yesterday, was quoted in his Washington Post obituary…
In the great light of the world flowers are creatures too, and love to sway and dance in the breeze. In extraordinary beauty there is humor and escape from the…
Down the path to the Lot River from the Mas de Garrigue are a few rural homes on the bluff. I could easily imagine sitting here, perhaps reading a good…
This is one of the light box compositions I've made using the glorious spring weather in northern California since I've been home from Spain!
On the boat ride around Menorca with PhotoPills camp, sitting up high on the upper deck, I saw a rig with a 19mm tilt-shift Nikkor. Cool lens. From the right…
We're excited to announce a new book: The Art of Photographing Flowers for Transparency by Harold Davis. Of course, my new book will showcase many of my botanical images. In…
Visit Paris in the Spring with a small group of photographers. Early-bird discount applies. Click here for more information.
In the traffic island in the middle of our Morning Glory Circle, as spring turns to summer the grass is drying and turning a California brown. I cut and carefully…
In 1969, Cala Galdana was a quiet and deserted sandy cove on the Balearic island of Menorca, off the Mediterranean coast of Spain. No human structures were in evidence, other…
Composition with Delphinium and Poppies is a good example showing one of the organizing principles I teach in my Photographing Flowers for Transparency workshop and my books. The first premise…