Becoming Echinacea
Becoming Echinacea 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. When I saw this Echinacea bud, I knew the image would have to be black and white because the…
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…
Storm Surge
Storm Surge, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This photo composite comes from LAB inversions of a channel of Poppy Medley, LAB inversion of a channel of Breaking…
Breaking Wave
Breaking Wave, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I shot this photo a few years ago, obliquely facing the rugged cliffs along the outer Marin Headlands. Here's the…
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…