Here are the best of my photo prayers, as formatted for exhibits and publications. To see them all, especially on small screens, visit PhotoPrayer.com. Click on any thumbnail below to see these images larger in a slide show. To return here, click on the “x” in the upper right of the slide show or simply […]
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 […]
Photo Classes and Workshops, Delaware Art Museum
In the fall, winter, and spring, I teach introductory photo classes at the Delaware Art Museum. These 8-week-long classes happen on Tuesday evenings, 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., twenty hours of instruction in all, learning about camera mechanics such as shutter speed, aperture, and ISO settings, plus an emphasis on artistic composition. The next series begins […]
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 […]
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 […]
Explore Focal Lengths of Lenses!
Homework Assignment No. 4: Focal Lengths of Lenses, Pay Attention to Backgrounds. In my fourth class, we look at the focal lengths of lenses. Some have fixed focal lengths. Other lenses have variable focal lengths and are called zoom lenses because you can zoom in and zoom out: zoom in to photograph a narrow area, […]
Best of Peak District Photos by Danny N. Schweers, 2018
Here are the best of the photos I took in Peak District National Park in England in April, 2018. To see more images, go to the individual links on the Places page of this website. Click on any thumbnail image to see it larger in a slide show. To return here, click on the “x” […]
It is Good to be Recognized
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 […]
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, March 13, 2019
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 […]
Recommended: Apple Macintosh Repair, Wilmington, Delaware
I recommend The Mac Shop for Apple Macintosh repairs, service, and support. When someone helps in a time of distress, it makes sense to thank them. In this case, The Mac Shop — 21a Trolley Square, Wilmington, Delaware — got my MacBook Pro humming again quickly and at a price so low that I cannot […]
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 […]
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. Below are thumbnails of my student’s work from 2012 on, ten images from each class. Click on any thumbnail image to see it larger in a slide […]
4th Annual Rehoboth Art League Photography Exhibit
I am gratified that an image of mine — “Outside My Comfort Zone” — was accepted by juror Alida Fish for inclusion in the 4th Annual Regional Photography Exhibit of the Rehoboth Art League. Rehoboth Art League, 12 Dodds Lane, Rehoboth Beach, DE, January 4 thru February 7, 2019. Artists’ Reception: Friday, Jan. 4, 5-7pm. […]
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