The Forest and the Stars
At about 10,000 feet elevation the mosquitos were ferocious. They swarmed in great clouds, buzzing their way through any minute gaps in my defences. Even lotion purportedly made of 100%…
Iglesia San Felipe
This is an interior of a church located in Habana Vieja (the old district of Havana, Cuba). The image is comprised of three bracketed exposures, shot using a tripod on…
Looking Up
One direction photographers often don't think to point their cameras is straight up. Sure, we include sky and mountains at the horizon line in many of our photos, and tilt…
Fifty Years after the Cuban Revolution
Museo de la Revolucion, formerly the Presidential Palace. View this image larger. Prologue to a Revolution On a humid and unseasonably hot day in March of 1957, forty-two men armed…
Capitolio Nacional
Capitolio Nacional, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The dome of the capitolio nacional is a landmark that can be seen from many parts of Havana, Cuba. The…
Stacking Star Trails
Edge of Night, photo © Harold Davis. View this image larger. Star stacking is a technology that derives from astronomical photography. The idea is to solve the…
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.…
The Day My Daughter Was Born
Author's note: I wrote The Day My Daughter Was Born shortly after Katie Rose came home from the hospital, about three months after she was born. This is an account…