Under Gray and Lowering Clouds
This morning I hoisted my camera backpack, and headed out into gray weather with lowering clouds. During the course of this day I was to experience torrential rain, steady hail,…
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April 30, 2018
Stamp Lady
I got into Madrid this morning about 10AM, and with my door-to-door transit time approaching 24 hours, and the +9 hours time zone shift, I am definitely feeling asleep on…
April 15, 2018
Detailed Malta Day-by-Day Itinerary; Workshop Opportunities
We're delighted to have available the detailed itinerary for our November 2018 Destination Photography Workshop to Malta (as a PDF download). Making this visit especially timely: Valletta, Malta will be hosting…
March 9, 2018
A Sunset and Two Camellias
This year, 2018, has been a little sparse for me photographically so far (but see Red Tulips and New Year's Day Design). I think of this as a "pause that…
January 12, 2018
Cherry Branches © Harold Davis
Harold Davis—My Best of 2017
Any compilation of one's best work for a given time frame has to be somewhat arbitrary. With 2017, for me this is particularly the case. Once again, I've been at…
December 22, 2017
Marin Coast with old gun emplacement
The Marin Coast is astoundingly beautiful for being so near a major city (San Francisco). We are lucky that much of it remains undeveloped, and that environmentalists won the battles…
December 19, 2017
My New Nikon D850: First Impressions
While I was away practicing night photography in the eastern Sierra, my new Nikon D850 arrived. Today I got to open the box, configure the menus, figure out where a…
October 27, 2017
PhotoPills Camp 2018
Please consider joining me and other Photography Masters at the PhotoPills Camp in May, 2018 on the beautiful island of Menorca. For more information, click here and register to get…
October 23, 2017
It Starts with a Petal and Ends with a Twist of Fate
It started with two wonderful bunches of alstromerias ("Peruvian Lilies"), one purple and one yellow. On the alstromeria flower, the blossoms have exterior petals that are mostly solid colors (e.g.,…
October 11, 2017
Darkness into Light
This spring I visited and spent a number of days and nights in the world's largest cave, in the jungle mountains of central Vietnam. Fewer people have been to the…
June 7, 2017
Introducing Multiple Exposures
Phyllis and I are working on an artist's book---really a booklet---based on my Multiple Exposures body of work. The title, Multiple Exposures, is a play on the technique used, and…
May 19, 2017
Hmong Street Vendor
Sapa is a hill town in the mountainous north of Vietnam fairly near the Chinese border. It's been known as a resort since the French founded a military sanitarium here…
March 18, 2017
My Grandparents: Harry and Helen Davis
These are portraits of my paternal grandparents. Harry Davis was born Herschel Davidowitz in 1892. Helen Davis, nee Gotlieb, born in 1895, and Harry were both from Lodz, Poland. They…
March 7, 2017
Five Minute Wave Exposures
In the practice of modern photography, an exposure as long as five minutes duration during daytime hours seems like eternity. This is particularly true in the context of the raging…
December 12, 2016
Starry Night by Harold Davis in exhibition at Weston Gallery
I am very pleased and honored that a print of my Starry Night (shown below) is on exhibit at the Weston Gallery in Carmel, CA as part of Night Vision:…
November 15, 2016
Vida and Shopvida: Annals of Deceptive Business Models
Being a Professional Artist Means Business As a successful professional artist and photographer—and, not entirely coincidentally, a business person—I am aware that sometimes you have to spend money to make…
November 4, 2016
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Visiting the Vatican Museum is an affair of moving with and through crowds. Most are in densely packed "schools of fish" (in tour groups). Others lumber slowly, couples or small…
October 21, 2016
Inside Prague’s Old Town Square Tower
For a book about black and white photography I am working on, I needed a few more images from Prague in the Czech Republic. This image shows the inside of…
June 29, 2016