Doing anything between this Saturday and December 29th? If not, head out to Lancaster, California, and see the Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees exhibit at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH). It’s part of a Getty-funded initiative that explores overlapping areas of art and science (an idea that…
scott b. davis: sonora by scott b. davis132 pages and 93 images, Published by Radius Books in 2021 Book information and purchase page at Radius Books or see the Amazon listing There is a useful exercise, when learning photography, where you choose any random location—a street corner, a meadow, a…
[This page is graphics intensive and may take a few seconds to load.] I’ve been exploring my own images, looking again at work I thought was finished, converting works to HDR to try to better understand this new technology and what it means to my own photography. HDR still photography—the…
What if you made landscape images and put owls at their center, in fact, what if you let the owl, by its location, more or less determine the framing of the image? You’d be making landscape images, yes, but messy ones, ones that reflect more how nature really is rather…
Now that the photography portion of my project, The Black and White Forest, is done all I have to do is sift through the thousands of images to find a few that are worthy of being the Chosen Ones. I hate this part. Stanley Kubrick once called the process of…
The hike up to the peak of Cima Dome is not long from the off-road trail that runs along the side of Tuetonia Peak but it is misleading. I parked my FJ Cruiser in a small campground turnout and looked up at the smooth arc of the Dome’s volcanic bulge…
A few unprocessed images from my recent trip to the Mojave Desert.
Starting last spring I began a project to photograph a family of owls that live near my house on Montara Mountain. I had photographed them before, in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic but those were just fun shots, messing around, more interested in the owls than in the…
Raw Footage posts look at new and developing projects Over the twenty years I’ve lived in my small, unincorporated town on the California coast, I’ve made many projects where the town, or some aspect of it, is the subject. I’ve photographed the streets misted with fog, I’ve photographed Christmas lights…
A little over a year ago I posted a series of six images: a small portfolio of prints I had given to family as gifts over the holidays. The images were of trees, and I shared also here the story I included with the images which attempted to convey the…