Should You Choose to Accept
On Photo.net recently Hannah Thiem conducted an interview with me. I think it's the best exposition about my work to date. (Suprada Urval's excellent interview with me covered very different…
Seizing the Day
Amy wrote, "I was impressed with your photos and one of your flowers in particular helped inspire a design for my tattoo." She sent me a link to a photo…
Each Apple Pear
Pear Blossom Special, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Obviously, I have a fondness for small aperture, fully stopped-down flower macros that use high depth of field to…
Blossoms and Sensitivity
I've written about using noise for aesthetic purposes. I've also explored the possibility that noise generated by boosting a camera's sensitivity (ISO) will become a historical artifact and thing of…
My Cherries
Burning Cherry, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. I like the way this cherry blossom is backlit by the sun. Meanwhile, the background has gone dark so that…
Perfection and Imperfection
Imperfection, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Why do we expect our great photographs of nature to show perfection? The truth is that nature is rarely perfect. Human…