Expecting the Unexpected
Fiber Optik, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Expecting the Unexpected, the first in my series of articles on Becoming a More Creative Photographer, is now up on…
Structure
Structure, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Structure (above) is pretty much a straight inversion of the L (Luminosity) channel using the LAB color space of the Dandelion…
Tin Can Alley
It's a long way from photographing wet cans in an alley to the abstraction you see here. The start was a recent rainy day and photography in the recycle bin…
Cherry Blossoms
Every year the cherry trees flower in the cultivated areas of the hills of California's coastal range, and of course I am impelled to photograph the blossoms. This season the…
Changes
Since the world is always changing, photography is largely about capturing states of things---scenes, objects, or people---in the process of change. A single image can intimate the before, and the…
Transmogrification
Transmogrification is the process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another. This transmogrification starts with a relatively straight photo of a white hellebore, taken a…
From Architecture to Fantasy
Between committments at Macworld at the Moscone Center I wandered over and indulged my dome photography habit by photographing the dome in the Westfield shopping mall in downtown San Francisco.…
Same Fuschia This Year
Fuschia Gradient, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Down the block, in front of Heidi's house, there's a great fuschia that grows buds like this one (Jet Engine…