Harold Davis—Best of 2018
2018 has been quite a year in art for me. Travel has included the Southwest of France, the Balearic Islands, a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago, teaching at Maine…
X-Ray Photos of Flowers
Were these images really made with x-rays? The same kind of x-rays used in a medical office? Yes, they were. It is accurate to call these x-ray captures "photos" and…
Revealing the Unseen with X-Ray Photography of Flowers
I had to quickly change my plans due to a family emergency and fly home from Berlin. Now that I'm at home, it's good that things have settled down again,…
Home is Best…with Flower Photography
As the saying goes, "You may travel east, you may travel west, but in your heart you know home is best!" In the past two months, I have traveled east…
What flowers are these?
"What flowers are these?" a reader asks. Peonies, poppies, a few roses and some campanulas (Canterbury Bells): The bounty of the garden.
Papaver Somniferum and friends
Returning home from travels abroad in mid-May, one great pleasure was to find poppies still in bloom in my garden. The large one as big as a platter towards the…
Pretty Peonies on Unryu
This is an arrangement of Peonies, Hydrangeas, and Campanulas---mainly Peonies---arranged on my lightbox and shot straight down in pieces. Each piece was shot using high-key HDR, with ten bracketed exposures.…
Opium Poppies
I am very excited that a number of my pieces in the style of this image of Papaver somniferum have been accepted into the publishing program at the World Art…