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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I got to hold Katie in the NICU. Katie Rose is looking more like a newborn baby. Katie is looking like herself. Katie is going strong and closing in on three pounds fast. View this photo larger. In the NICU, they’ve turned off the environmental settings in Katie’s isolette (they are keeping it warm, but they’ve [...]

If you’re like me when it comes to wild and wacky Photoshop creations that start as digital photos, sometimes you don’t remember how you got to your end point. A related issue: sometimes in the process of experimenting one of the intermediate “experiments” seems better than the final version, so was it saved? How do [...]

Katie and Her Grandpa, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Katie’s grandparents are back from travels in Poland and Russia, and we were able to bring them to visit Katie Rose for the first time. The logistics of visiting in the NICU are a bit complicated because only two adult visitors are allowed [...]

Hayward Marsh, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. This is a black and white version of my photo of the Hayward Marsh. I prepared the black and white version for an environmental magazine doing a story on marshes created using reclaimed waste water (as is the case with the Hayward). Some other monochrome images: [...]

Katie’s Hand, photo by Harold Davis. View this photo larger. Katie’s hands are tiny, mobile, expressive, and elegant. Each hand is a perfectly formed minature. Katie Rose gesticulates with her hands. She spreads them out in front of her in a classic preemie gesture when the stimulus is too much, balls them up, and them [...]

Day Lily in Morning Dew, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. In the early morning, in a shady nook in my garden, I found this day lily in the morning dew. At the close macro range of this photo, it’s hard to get all the flower in focus even with the lens fully stopped [...]

Suprada Urval has started a series of weekly interviews with photographers on his blog. I am his third interview subject. My interview covers a wide range of topics from how I got started in photography through night photography and more. I’ve never been asked about my image titles before. Suprada’s question made me stop and think: SU: [...]

Gladiolus 2, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. There’s a clump of these wonderful gladiolas that grow in my garden this time of year. I cut this stem, and photographed it in a dark room on black. The only light source was an LED headlamp that I used to “paint” with light to [...]