Bill Moore of New Castle Presbytery in Wilmington, Delaware wrote the following on the day of Barnard Kabibu’s death, 10/18/2018: “We in New Castle Presbytery visited with Barnard Kabibu [in the Democratic Republic of the Congo] in 2008 to deliver some medicines, and provided him with a Photopriere for IMCK/Good Shepherd hospital. Bernard was most […]
Panorama Photos
Every day, Delaware’s News Journal newspaper publishes a panorama photo at the top its local news section. I occasionally submit, and they occasionally publish, my images. Photographers should be paid for their work but I don’t mind giving these images to the News Journal to use, especially since the paper has been so generous in […]
Explore Your Camera’s ISO Settings
Homework Assignment No. 1: Rule of Thirds and ISO Settings The first homework assignment I give students is to take photos in Program Mode to explore ISO settings and to use the Rule of Thirds. Rule Of Thirds If you compose your image using the Rule of Thirds, vertical lines are placed one-third to the […]
Removing A Dam, Wilmington, Delaware
Two new 24-inch pressurized water mains are being buried 8-feet below Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, taking drinking water from one side of the city to the other. Once the two new water mains are in place, the old water mains will be removed. Those large pipes, when installed in 1914, form a dam across […]
Wastewater Treatment Plant, Wilmington, Delaware
Here are photographs of the wastewater treatment plant in Wilmington, Delaware — managed by Veolia Water North America — whose representative welcomed our ten of us from the Delaware Nature Society on Wednesday afternoon, March 13, 2019. We spent over two hours touring the plant and ended our visit on the spit of land separating […]
Danny Schweers on YourDailyPhotograph again
On Monday, January 21, 2019, I learned that another photographic print of mine had been selected by Your Daily Photograph (YDP). The next day YDP offered the print for sale in an email blast and it immediately sold! This image — Outside My Comfort Zone — is the same image Alida Fish chose for the […]
Explore Your Camera’s Aperture Settings
Homework Assignment No. 4: Aperture, Out-of-Focus Backgrounds The fourth homework assignment I give students in my digital photography class at the Delaware Art Museum is to separate subject from background by using small aperture numbers; that is, apertures with little depth of field. The subject is in focus while the background is out of focus, […]
Explore Your Camera’s Shutter Speeds
Homework Assignment No. 2: Shutter Speeds, Diagonals to Corners My second homework assignment is to send me 2-5 photos in Shutter Priority Mode (“Tv” on Canon and Ricoh cameras, and “S” on Nikon and Sony cameras) and to include a line to a corner. Vary Shutter Speed Motion blur is controlled by changing the time […]
Ray Seigfried Sworn In 1/8/2019
On Tuesday, January 8, 2019, Ray Seigfried was sworn in for the first time as the State Representative of District 7, representing me and my neighbors. This, the 150th General Assembly of the State of Delaware, was remarkable because ten new faces were present, a huge turnover. For years, there was only one black female […]
Student Photos, 2012 on …
My students at the Delaware Art Museum have produced some wonderful images since I began teaching there. Here I have limited myself to 10 images from each class. But first, here are links to photographs by them of dress rehearsals at the Delaware Children’s Theatre. Scrooge, The Musical, 2018 Wonderland: Alice’s Rock-n-Roll Adventure, 2018 Honk! […]