I am the juror for Nocturnes a competition and exhibition based around night photography at the Southeast Center for Photography. Here's the description: A nocturne is a musical composition that is…
I realize that I never blogged this iPhone image of gourds, which I rather like. It was photographed locally at the wonderful Berkeley Bowl produce market. I processed in on…
This May will mark my fourth visit to Giverny in three years---each time a kind of pilgrimage to this extraordinary and iconic place. Along with Ansel Adams's prints of the…
There are some really sharp-eyed members of my photographic community! I posted a contest regarding an Easter Egg in a photo in my book Achieving Your Potential As a Photographer…
The past several years during the great California drought the waterfalls on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais have been fairly dry, even in the rainy season. So what a wonderful joy to…
Originally published September 22, 2008 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…
As a photographer and artist, I'm the kind of person who would much rather look forward than backward. The next adventure, or the next photo, is always more interesting to…
The Ponte dei Sospiri, or Bridge of Sighs, is one of the most famous landmarks in Venice, Italy. It connects the Doge's Palace with a prison on the opposite side of the…
Italy: I am totally, totally excited to be off to Italy on Monday to lead a destination photo workshop. Phyllis and I have been planning this trip for over a…
The photo in this story is of the Philosophical Hall, part of the library of the massive Strahov Monastery in the hills above Prague in the Czech Republic which I…
My sponsor Zeiss has announced a spectacular new line of lenses, the "Milvus" lenses. As a prelude to the product launch, I got to work with two of the lenses,…
Poet William Blake wrote about building a Hell in Heaven's despite, and the cognitive dissonance of traveling in Japan often put me in mind of this poem of Blake's (which also…
The basis for this image is a photo I made today during a field trip with my Creative Flower Photography workshop here in Rockport, Maine at the Maine Media Workshops.…
I am often asked how I deal with the issue of image theft, considering my extensive online presence on my blog and on my Flickr stream. My answer has been…
Reinhard Heydrich was the second-in-command of the Nazi SS. Heydrich was charged with enhancing the Czech contribution to the Nazi war machine, and did his best in a terrible reign…
On my way to teach a weekend Seascapes and Wildflowers workshop at the western tip of Point Reyes, California I stopped to photograph the well-known row of Monterey Cypress trees…
My Kirk BH-3 tripod ball head has served me well on four continents on the trail, in the studio, in mountains, deserts, and along the rugged Pacific host, from the…
We have a few spaces available in the Creative Portfolio Weekend Workshop, Saturday May 9 and Sunday May 10, 2015. Click here for information and registration. The gist of this…