Alstromeria Medley
Alstromeria Medley on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: While photographing the Helleborus, I also placed these alstromeria blossoms on the lightbox; the black variation…
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.…
Watchmaker Dial
Starting with my photo of the Westfield Mall dome, I stayed up most of the night and worked the image in Photoshop. A trick with this kind of thing is…
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…
Flowers Are Stars
Flowers Are Stars on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Life goes on. It's hard to keep my thoughts off Katie Rose in the NICU, but I…
Making a Digital Collage
The image below is a digital collage, meaning a Photoshop composite created by blending layers. As these collages go, this is a fairly simple piece. All the elements in the…
From Reflections to Abstractions
I sometimes wonder how I end up with images that are elaborate photo composites, having more visually in common with paintings than photographs. This images are born of photographic parents…