Purple Dahlias

I love to photograph dahlias---and, as I wrote in Photographing Flowers, it is "not for their good taste. Rather, I see these flowers as extravagant: wonderfully different from each other, and wild…

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Falling Flowers

For a shot like this to work, everything has to fall into place. In a brief intermission between taking care of Katie Rose (she was napping) and getting a book…

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Orbit

Orbit, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Head down and hard at work on a new book project, it was fun this morning to take a break. My…

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Purple Flower Dance

Purple Flower Dance, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: Like Gaillardia Gone to Seed, this is a flatbed scan, using a black velvet cloth taped into…

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Fourth of July Rose

Fourth of July Rose, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: For a special project I needed macro photos of flowers showing selective focus. I photographed this…

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Zeiss 100mm f/2 Macro Lens

Gaillardia, Papaver, and Iris, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Briefly noted: I bought a Zeiss Macro 100mm f/2 ZF Makro-Planar T* Manual Focus Lens to use with…

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