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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Diffusion of the Moon, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Only a fifteen second exposure, with more light than you'd expect: the bank of clouds surrounding the moon acting like a giant source of [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Iris ensata 'Azuma-kagami', photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I originally got this cool Iris ensata 'Azuma-kagami' as a bare root plant from White Flower Farms, planted it in my garden, and forgot about [...]

In the Eisenhower-era movie The Incredible Shrinking Man, the hero begins shrinking after accidental exposure to radiation and insectiside. In the end, always growing tinier, after numerous battles with house cats, spiders, and successively smaller creatures, the hero keeps his dignity and soliloquizes, "So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I [...]

At the end of June this year, the full moon rose in the eastern sky at about sunset (although by July 2 after dark). This cosmologic timing gave me the chance to consider extravagant dynamic range. In other words, what can you do with captures in which the dynamic range is simply too great to [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Golden Gate from Berkeley Pier, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I celebrated Julian's 10th birthday a bit early yesterday with Julian and his grandparents (they won't be around on his actual birthday). We [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Day Lily, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This morning I was up early. Even though I had a great deal of writing and office work to do, I couldn't resist photographing this beautiful [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Gerbera Drop, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. It rained overnight, rare for around here in July. We were in a cloud in the morning. Wisps of fog, and natural water drops in the [...]

I'm reading the wonderful Aubrey-Maturin series of sea stories aloud to my oldest son, Julian. If you stick around "lucky" Captain Jack Aubrey, you'll surely come to recognize his motto, "There's no time to be lost!" Funny, but I don't often think of landscape photography as something where rushing is important. But the theme [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Simple Pleasures, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Wet flowers in my garden after early morning rain are not profound. These are simple pleasures. To read more about my session with these flowers, and the [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Moonshine, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. At two minutes, this exposure was smack dab in the middle of the dynamic range for capturing bright moonlight. In other words, the exposure should be (and [...]

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Serpent Mother, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. Matt and Amy and their kids came down from Placerville to go to the Fire Arts Festival at The Crucible in Oakland. After a nice dinner, [...]