I like the way this three second time exposure makes the car lights look abstracted but still recognizable. I took this photo early in the evening from the location across the mouth of the Waldo Tunnel described in Alignment. I used a long lens, my 70-200 VR zoom combined with a 2X telextender at the maximum focal length. The...

For anyone immersed in the digital music space, the past couple of weeks have brought some shifts that are reasonably seismic in nature relative to the shifting balance of power from record labels to artists. Here's a summary of some the most recent (and significant) activities to highlight what's going on: Oct 1st -- Radiohead upsets the apple cart by...

From my rocky perch jutting out into the ocean near Sculptured Beach, I played with photographing the waves as the sun set. This tripod-mounted 1/4 of a second exposure caught the abstract expression of a wave crashing, while retaining some literal relationship to the play of warm light on the wave against the cool blue of the surrounding ocean. Wave,...

Man, I wish I hadn't just snapped the mic off my pocket voice recorder. Today I got a hilarious call from a robotic telemarketer. Apparently hoping to add impact, the programmer set its speech synth to use a British accent. The greeting went something like this: Hello David. This is Ian from the university. If there's one thing holding you...

On a balmy afternoon in late October I studied the topographic map of the USGS San Francisco North Quadrant. This map shows (among other areas) the hills above Fort Baker outside Sausalito, and the northern side of the Golden Gate Bridge. It seemed to me that there was a ridge that could be climbed going up from above Fort Baker....

When I sat down with Albert Watson in New York, I knew what I wanted to talk about. I wanted to hear how the industry has changed over the course of his 250 Vogue covers. I wanted to know how he prepared for the only wedding he's ever shot: Prince Andrew's royal marriage. And I wanted to understand the difference...

We were impressed with Edirol's R-09 handheld digital recorder when we reviewed it, and thanks to a free firmware update, it just got better. OS 1.30 adds support for 8GB SDHC memory cards, which by my quick calculation should boost the recording capacity to eight hours in 24-bit, 44.1kHz WAV format or more than 132 hours in 128kbps MP3. The...

Just back from my first experience of PhotoPlus, and so glad I have been procrastinating on submitting my 2008 travel/conference budget. Now I know that this one goes to the top of the priority list. It seems everyone brings their A game to the Javitz Center for this show, and the result is an ambiance of enthusiasm, professionalism, collegiality, and...

I thought it would be interesting to see my image of Church Towers from the Yosemite Valley floor in winter as it might have looked as a palladium or platinum toned print. Here it is: Beyond the Forest: Toned, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. First I converted the image to black and white in Photoshop, using the...

Instead of telling people what you are doing, show them!...