Danny Schweers

Wooden Chinese characters, graffiti, and one odd symbol on a sign in the Chinatown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.   Not always, but often, I am delighted to find mystery, to come across any thing I do not understand. I am not sure why this is, but am grateful for the recurring experience. It certainly helped […]

Meadow Buttercup and Ajuga: an alternative ground cover   If my backyard is a meadow of wild flowers each spring, it is because I mow around the wild buttercups and ajuga that pop up and bloom. At first there were just a few plants in my back yard but, because I let them go to […]

I wrote a prayer to go with this photo of shadows. Here are some steps I took along the way. “You don’t judge us, good Lord, by the shape of our shadows, the images made of us, or what people say. You see us as we are. Your light reveals all and redeems every imperfection […]

THE PHOTO Storm on Mt. Baldy and Flat Top Mountain, Utah. THE PRAYER How I yearn to be there miles away and high above there in the storm sleet stinging my face lightning crackling and exploding me small against the peaks witness to Your majesty Click here to visit my Photo Prayer website.

Occasionally, not as often as I’d like, I take time to make photographs and share them with you. That’s what the photo prayer I sent out today is about. Robert Frost said it better in his poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Like Frost, I know whose woods these are. They are on […]

Trying to walk past mannikins is futile if you have a camera in your hand. Mannikins, like grave stones and sun sets, pull camera lenses to them and we, the image makers, have no choice but to release the shutters of our cameras and publish the results. This was made clear to me on Sunday morning, Sept. […]

Here is something rare. I’ve posted a high res version of a photo on the Web. Click on the above photo, and a high-res image will appear in a new window. You can then right-click on the large image to download it to your computer, where you can use as your desktop image or as […]

Like many photographers, I keep alert, paying attention to my eyes when they are delighted. Since I travel little, and have little time to set up a shot, I rely on God, or perhaps you’d call it happenstance or serendipity, to provide my subjects. This photo of ice cubes melting inside a blue plastic cup […]

An awesome storm front moved over the parking lot of Barnes & Noble tonight just as my wife, friends, and I arrived about sunset. I shot several minutes of video in the parking lot but then the lightning strikes alarmed my company, who started shouting at me. Then I moved under cover and shot these […]

Let’s start with a still photo. Adding Movement — Is a photo better if it moves? Let me show you one that does if you click on the PLAY button. Adding Music — Is a moving photo better is you add music? Below I’ve added music by Milton Peasley from 2003, a piece he called “The […]

We mixers of images and words will start with an image or start with the words. Today I started with this image of a trailer I passed while driving east on State Highway 9 near Haydenville, MA late on Friday afternoon, June 22, 2012. I was a mile down the road before I decided to […]