Thumb, photo by Harold Davis. Katie Rose has found her thumb. Not always, not always easily, but when she does find her thumb it seems to bring her great peace and joy. Katie is closing in on four pounds, she is getting to be a “big girl.” At 32 weeks gestationally (the age she would have [...]

Here’s the copy from the publisher’s to-the-book-trade postcard advertising my new book, 100 Views of the Golden Gate. The Golden Gate as you’ve never seen it before…Now available, 100 Views of the Golden Gate by Harold Davis from Wilderness Press. With a bow to the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) whose woodblock series 100 Views of Mt. [...]

Art Is Where You Find It, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We were getting the boys haircuts. At the hair cutting place I saw this mirror and reflections of bottles and the street. So I did the grab shot thing. I’m not maintaining this photo is a piece of great art per se. [...]

I’ve been spending so much time photographing Katie Rose in the NICU that I haven’t been photographing her big brothers much. Last week I remedied this, with several photo sessions in which I got down on the floor with the boys. As you’ll see in one of the photos, we also took the boys in [...]

I was half asleep on the couch earlier. I felt Diamond jump up on the cushion next to me, and rub up against my side. I reached over to pet her, and found that she wasn't really there.

Introduction to Clinical Psychology cover, image by Harold Davis. This is the cover of the 7th edition of Prentice Hall’s Introduction to Clinical Psychology textbook. The image is my composite of a spiral stair and a chambered nautilus shell. You can read the back story of the composite Spirals image here. Worth noting: this is a [...]

We’ve had a couple of spells of really warm weather lately. This is an unusual pattern for the San Francisco Bay area in summer. It is well known that summer weather in San Francisco is often cold and foggy. On one of these hot and sultry summer days Mark and I started down the trail for [...]

Katie does her job: she eats, sleeps, poops, and grows. Katie is now well over three pounds and almost twice her birth rate. Here’s a photo from a few days ago of Phyllis holding and embracing Katie: There’s nothing more snoozy than having a warm, happy baby on one’s chest. I was holding Katie yesterday, she [...]

This history was prepared by Robert Niles for the Eldorado National Forest in 1979. The El Dorado Western Railway blog will reprint serialized portions of Mr. Nile’s report in the coming months.

The Lithographers Club of Chicago is a printing industry trade group. They selected an image of mine to use for the cover of their May/June 2008 magazine issue (the cover is shown below). Printing was contributed by Komori (they are a large manufacturer of printing presses) and demonstrates the Hexachrome process-color system. I’ll explain Hexachrome [...]

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330 Fair Lane, Bldg. A, Meeting Room, Placerville, CA 95667 IV. Chamber of Commerce Updates (10 Min.’s) V. Staff Update (10 Min.’s) VI. Old Business (30 Min.’s) A. APPROVE: EDAC 2008-2010 Work Plan & Reformulation (Final) VII. New Business (30 Min.’s + Q & A) A. REGULATORY REFORM ISSUE: Early Care and Education Facility

Board of Supervisors - 06/27/2008 - INRMP workshop to be held in the Board hearing room at 1:30 p.m.

Father’s Day, photo by Harold Davis. For Father’s Day I got to kangaroo hold Katie Rose, the best gift of all.

Yesterday we took our three boys to visit their sister Katie Rose in the NICU. Katie was resting peacefully. View this photo larger. Katie’s three brothers lined up to take a good, long look at their sister. I think the brothers will probably look a little more imposing in the future when she considers bringing her dates [...]

Hydrangea Sheila blooms in the shade of my garden. I snipped this crown of flowers, and brought it inside to play with. The image combines two captures, both exposed for transparency, and a flatbed scan. View this image larger. [Composite image derived from Epson flatbed scanner and two Nikon D300 captures, one at 3 seconds and one at [...]

I'm getting ready to head out to the El Dorado County Fair and pull the No. 4 out of the engine house with the crew. This has been a slow year so far, so we need you to come out. The museum, railroad and fair have each experienced low turnout.

Swim Ladder, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. The reflections in the swimming pool ladder intrigued me because they looked like an abstract work in stained glass. I focused on three different points, using two different exposures for each focus point. The resulting image combines the six captures. [Nikon D300, 105mm f2.8 macro lens [...]