Life goes on. It's hard to keep my thoughts off Katie Rose in the NICU, but I have work to do and other kids to take care of. Photography is therapy. It is fun. It keeps me strong. Flowers Are Stars on White, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. I gathered these flowers from the garden and photographed...

Hey All! Just back from Papua New Guinea (PNG) - one of the last great adventures left on the planet. An adventure due, in part, to the clan wars that have been going on for generations. The other parts? I'll share some stories at Photoshop World. Hint: has to do with two machetes!! Here is a favorite shot - which did not, like all my PNG shots, make my new O'Reilly Face to Face book, which was actually published when I was there...

Suprada Urval has started a series of weekly interviews with photographers on her blog. I am her 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: How do you...

The metadata table in Derrick's book proves it's not about the camera you have, but the one you have with you. (And knowing what to do with the one you have with you.)

On a Saturday night in mid-May Phyllis's placental membrane ruptured with fluid spewing over our bed. She was twenty-four weeks pregnant, or about sixteen weeks shy of her nominal full term. We got my parents to come over to take care of the boys, and I drove Phyllis into the hospital in San Francisco. It was clear from the start...

Three Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) chicks sat in a nest about twenty-five feet above a wide path in Claremont Canyon right above the Claremont Hotel in Oakland, California. While I was there, Mom and Dad hovered higher up in nearby trees. The nest had been there for about a month, and was pretty well-known locally. I climbed up the...

This is a photo taken looking straight up one of the smaller, back staircases at the Marin Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The results are almost abstract: I don't think one is quite sure what one is looking at. There's very little Photoshop work here, just a bit of adjustment to compensate for the mixed-color-temperature light environment. Wright Stairs,...

This is a photo of a Papaver rhoeas 'Falling in Love,' a double variety of Papaver rhoeas, a kind of poppy. I cut a flower off the profusion of these poppies in our garden, and photographed this flower indoors. I put the flower in a glass flute to keep it upright, and placed the flute on a black velvet background....

If you've ever looked closely at a daffodil like this beautiful specimen, you'll know that within the outer yellow petals is an orange "trumpet" (sometimes the trumpet is yellow like the outer petals of the flower, not orange). The trumpet itself contains the reproductive parts of the flower: ovaries, pistil, and the stigma, style, and anthers shown in my photo...

I've been thinking a good bit lately about making black and white prints from certain of my digital images. Actually, since the final output would be using my digital printer, printing via offset, or display on a color monitor, what I'm really doing is to use the RGB (or CMYK) color notation to create a simulation of a black and...