It is a real pleasure to drive the back roads of Chester County, Pennsylvania. On Sunday, February 23, 2020, I came across what I thought was someone burning brush. I stopped just off the road to photograph the smoke moving through the leafless trees of winter. Another photographer stopped. Like me, he was out shooting […]
Open Gates: 23 Photo Prayers On Exhibit in Arden, Delaware, in March, 2020
Photography and Text Exhibition Buzz Ware Village Center, 2119 The Highway, Arden, DE 19810, March, 2020. Wilmington Art Loop Reception, Friday, March 6, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. “OPEN GATES” is the best of my recent Photo Prayers. Every week (well, most weeks), I email an image and text to a few hundred fans. Those images […]
Torn Love Stitched in Your Daily Photograph
My image — Torn Love Stitched — was featured on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 in the Your Daily Photograph email blast from the Duncan Miller Gallery in Santa Monica, California. This is my third image to be featured. The last two sold immediately! To see the Your Daily Photograph post of 4 February, 2020, visit: […]
“Florida” Selected for Rehoboth Art League Exhibit
I am delighted that “Florida” — an ominous photograph with contrarian text — has been selected for the 5th Annual Regional Juried Photography Exhibition at the Rehoboth Art League (RAL), 12 Dodds Lane in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Opening reception, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Friday, January 31, 2020. Juror’s Talk by Gabrielle Tillenburg, Saturday, February […]
Portrait Photography Workshop, Delaware Art Museum, January, 2020
This was Iris McKenney’s first time to model for photographers and my first time working with a live model and students. Iris made it a delightful experience, putting the students (and me) at ease, striking one pose after another, not rapid-fire but measured, like she was in a slow-motion slide show dance. Students were encouraged […]
Bread and Variety
Bread has been a symbol of sustenance as well as boredom for many thousands of years. When the tribes of Israel, fleeing from captivity in Egypt, were nearly dying of hunger in the desert, God rained down manna upon them — the bread of heaven. But soon, miraculous as this food was, people got bored […]
Photo Classes and Workshops, Wilmington, Delaware
I teach photography lessons in Wilmington, Delaware, primarily at the Delaware Art Museum but also at Mt. Cuba Center and privately. Delaware Art Museum ADOBE LIGHTROOM AND PHOTOSHOP: Learn how to use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop software to process images on March 3 and 10, 2020 at the Delaware Art Museum. LEARN MORE… 8-WEEK-LONG INTRO […]
Recommended: Jeffrey Politis, Candidate, Delaware State Senate, District 5
I gladly recommend that you vote for Jeffrey Politis, a Democrat, who is a candidate for Delaware State Senate, District 5. He is someone I have worked with for many years and still admire! District 5 is bordered by Route 202 to the west, Interstate 95 to the east, and the State of Pennsylvania to […]
Jazz Quartet Photos: Jonathan Whitney, Joe Anderson, Tom Palmer and Rob Swanson
Churches have become a frequent venue for performances of jazz music. At the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in Wilmington, Delaware, these performances often happen in the context of services of Vespers. This service featured an opening prayer, a reading of “The Creation” by James Weldon Johnson, quotes from the Pope’s Encyclical on […]
Calpine Electric Generating Plants, Edgemoor, Delaware
The Delaware Nature Society is big on plants, so it makes sense that it would arrange a tour of Calpine Energy in Edgemoor, Delaware, which operates several large electric generating plants. This tour took place on Thursday, October 24, 2019. Posting these the next day, I am quite happy with them. I went for pleasing […]
Southeastern New England 2019
Here are images from three day trips in October, 2019 to Newport, Rhode Island and, in southeastern Massachusetts, to Horseneck Beach State Reservation, Allens Pond Audubon Sanctuary, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Click on any image below to see it larger in a slide show. Once in the slide show, use your arrow keys […]
Neumann University Exhibit, Fall, 2019
Here are some the best of my photo prayers, as formatted for exhibits and publications. To see them on small screens, visit PhotoPrayer.com. These photographs, with hand-written text, were on exhibit at the McNichol Gallery, Neumann University, Aston, Pennsylvania, Oct. 16 thru Dec. 9, 2019. Click on any image below to see it larger in […]
Explore Your Camera’s Manual Mode
Homework Assignment No. 4 — Manual Mode. The fourth homework assignment I give students in my digital photography class at the Delaware Art Museum is to explore shooting in Manual Mode. Why Manual Mode? Many, perhaps most, professional photographers shoot in Manual Mode. While cameras in automatic and semi-automatic modes get better all the time, […]
My Photo Rescued
A friend lost a wall during remodeling which meant the photo I gave her back in 2004 had no place to hang in 2019. She donated it to the local Goodwill thrift shop. My biggest collector, Ken Morrison, recognized my work right away and rescued the photo from oblivion. The photo looks something like fireworks […]
Explore Your Camera’s Aperture Settings
Homework Assignment No. 3: Aperture, Out-of-Focus Backgrounds The third 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 […]
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 a series of photos in Program Mode to explore ISO settings and to use the Rule of Thirds. I also ask them to tell me the name of a photographer whose work they admire. Rule […]
Arden Fair, Delaware, 2019
Everything seemed to go right at the 112th Arden Fair — weather, crowds, vendors, musicians, artists, dancers, and wizards. This annual event benefits the Arden Club, which is the umbrella non-profit in Arden, Delaware for many gilds including Ardensingers, Shakespeare, Swim, Garden, Writing and Poetry, Folk Dance, Georgists, Library, Scholars, Dinner, and Concert Gilds, headquartered […]
Vermont, July, 2019
These are vacation photos of Vermont, though some aspire to art. My wife and I did day trips, first out of Ludlow in the southern portion of the state, and then out of Waterbury, to the north. We visited Ascutney State Park, Rockingham Meetinghouse, Bellows Falls, Calvin Coolidge Homestead, Billings Farm and Museum, Richard Egan […]
Arden, Delaware – Fire Hydrant Spray People
2012 thru 2019, Arden, Delaware — Every year, the Arden Community Recreation Association hosts its July 4th Games on the green in Arden, Delaware. The event ends with people cavorting in spray shot from a fire hydrant. I love how the gyrating people look when photographed. They are often just silhouettes, and there is a […]
Danny Schweers Photograph Collection at Austin History Center
In June, 2019, the Austin History Center offered to accept my photographs of Austin, Texas into its archives and call it the Danny Schweers Photograph Collection. I lived in Austin from 1970 thru 2000, and have many thousands of negatives and hundreds of silver gelatin prints from those three decades. Some of them are worth […]
Canal Trails out of New Hope, PA and Lambertville, NJ
Two canals parallel the Delaware River for 30 miles. One goes from Morrisville to Uhlerstown on the Pennsylvania side and the other goes from Trenton to Frenchtown on the New Jersey side. Along these canals are trails easily walked and bicycled, former tow paths trod many decades ago by mules pulling barges up and down […]
Photography Print Festival, June 7-21, 2019.
Five Prints by Danny N. Schweers, Photography Print Festival, June 7-21, 2019, Chris White Gallery, 701 N. Shipley Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. Opening Reception: Friday, June 7, 2019, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Closing Reception: Friday, June 21, 2019, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Galley Hours: Mondays (June 10 & 17) and Wednesdays (June 12 & 19), […]
Explore Light Painting
In-Class Exercise No. 6: Light Painting Having learned to shoot in Manual Mode (M) in my digital photography course at the Delaware Art Museum, we darken the room and use flashlights to paint light onto our subjects. Cameras are on tripods for these exposures, which are often 20 seconds long. When done correctly, objects seem […]
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