Danny Schweers

Foggy Woods

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 […]

The Form of Writing

“The form of writing matters,” writes Christopher Calderhead. He says, “Humans are mark-making animals.” He does not say that making marks is what distinguishes us from other animals, or that making marks is our essence, just that it is something we do naturally, and that how we do it matters. Calderhead wrote this in his […]

Created In Our Image

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. […]

Copy Protection

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 […]

Ice Cubes Melt

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 […]

Turbulent Clouds

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 […]

A Moving Photograph

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 […]

Truth Doesn’t Need Us Minnows

We mixers of images and words some times start with an image and then find 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 […]