What we're about

Many photographers have approached me about personal sessions and workshops. Meetup allows me to let you know about all the events I am giving, including workshops and free presentations. This group is about learning photography with master photographer Harold Davis. This group takes you to interesting places to photograph with Harold's unique perspective and guidance. About Harold: He is the author of more than ten best-selling photography books including "The Photoshop Darkroom" series from Focal Press and "Creative Black & White" and all the other books in the Creative series from Wiley Publishing. Harold is one of the most widely acclaimed digital photographers working today. This meetup is for you if you would like to take your photography to the next level, or if you want to know more about Harold's creative approach.

Upcoming events (4)

Reception | Translucent Flora: Photographs by Harold Davis at SFBG

San Francisco Botanical Garden

## Translucent Flora: Photographs by Harold Davis

June – September 2023

Join us for the Artists’ Reception on Sunday, June 11, 4-6pm

This beautiful new art exhibition features stunning botanical photographs by award-winning photographer and author Harold Davis. Using a special photographic technique, Harold Davis creates images of flowers and plants with an ethereal, translucent effect. The author of several books, his work is featured on two USPS Forever stamps.

Info: https://www.sfbg.org/davis
Click here for to RSVP and for free tickets for reception.

Composition & Photography

Maine Media Workshops + College

Guided by Harold Davis (author of Composition & Photography), learn the tools and visual vocabulary to creatively design your photographs.

This is a five-day workshop at Maine Media in Rockport, Maine. Please click here for information and registration.

Photographic exercises will start with simple shapes, such as lines and circles, and proceed through patterns and repetitions, and onwards to spirals, fractals, and abstractions. Field sessions will take advantage of the “target-rich” mid-coast Maine scenery. Classroom discussions will be intended to provoke thought about composition basics and continue to enable individual integration of the process of composition into each participant’s creative practice.

Be prepared for some serious creative fun!

Off-the-Beaten Track Japan Photography Journey with Harold Davis

Park Hotel Tokyo

What: Step into the fabled Japan of myth and legend. Journey back in time to a Japan that few westerners are familiar with. Join a small group of compatible photographers led by Harold Davis and a professional guide for this once-in-a-lifetime adventure.

More info: https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/japan

Detailed Prospectus and Itinerary: https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/pdf/Japan-Prospectus.pdf
Reservation Form: https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/pdf/Reservation-Japan.pdf

If you want to come, please complete a Reservation Form (includes pricing info) and send us a deposit check.

When: Sunday, October 15, 2023 to Wednesday, October 25, 2023 (ten nights and eleven days).

Where: We meet at our hotel in Tokyo, Japan. After exploring the new and old sides of Tokyo, we’ll travel back in time through the Japanese Alps via the ancient Nakasendo way. We’ll visit well-preserved villages in the Kiso Valley, Matsumoto Castle, the castle town of Takayama, and the World Heritage site of Shirakawa-go. Following a stop in the culturally important city of Kanazawa, we will wrap up the destination photo workshop with a dreamlike visit to the gardens and temples of Kyoto, where the tour will end. For full details, please see the Prospectus.

Group Size: This is an exclusive, small photo workshop (non-photographer significant others are also welcome) with very limited space availability (the minimum group size is six and the maximum is twelve).
More info: https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/japan

Detailed Prospectus and Itinerary: https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/pdf/Japan-Prospectus.pdf
Reservation Form (includes pricing info): https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/pdf/Reservation-Japan.pdf

Romantic Southwest France (April 27-May 5, 2024) - Destination Photo Workshop

Novotel Toulouse Centre Wilson

  • This group is full. Please contact us to be added to the waiting list. Thanks for your understanding.
  • Sadly, Spring 2024 will be the last time we will be able to present this destination workshop.

We are pleased to announce our destination photo workshop to southwestern France in the spring of 2024. Join a small compatible group of photographers in a 15th Century fortified farmhouse in the lush countryside of southwest France in the springtime. We will be hosted at the Mas de Garrigue, a 15th century fortified farm near the Lot River in the heart of romantic southwestern France. This is an area of gardens, gourmet French home cooking, ancient medieval villages and castles, and a photographer's and walker's paradise.

Please contact us right away if you are interested.

Detailed Prospectus and Itinerary: https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/pdf/2024_Harold_Davis_SW_France.pdf
Reservation Form: https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/pdf/Reservation-Form-France-2024-Harold%20Davis.pdf

Our group will meet at a special hotel in Toulouse in the southwest of France on the afternoon of TBD where we will be spending the night. After exploring Toulouse, we'll transfer by private mini-bus to Mas de Garrigue in the area of Calvignac on the banks of the beautiful Lot River. Along the way we will stop at the historic city of Albi, with its ancient bridge over the Tarn River.

The Lot is a region of beautiful rivers and valleys, stark cliffs with ancient clinging villages, sacred pilgrimage routes, stone bridges, churches that date from the era of the crusaders, beautiful flowering gardens, and much more.

Detailed Prospectus and Itinerary: https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/pdf/2024_Harold_Davis_SW_France.pdf
Reservation Form: https://www.digitalfieldguide.com/pdf/Reservation-Form-France-2024-Harold%20Davis.pdf

Past events (213)

Composition and Photography Online Masterclass

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