Danny Schweers

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Delmarva Peninsula

Delaware is the lowest of the 50 states; that is, its average elevation — 60 feet — is lower than any other state. Florida’s average elevation is 40 feet higher! Forget mountain majesty. South of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Delaware and the rest of the Delmarva Peninsula has marshes and tidal rivers, big skies […]

Smoke and Fire near West Grove, Pennsylvania

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 image below to see it larger in a slide show. Once in the slide show, use your […]

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 […]

Lyme Park, Cheshire, England, April 22, 2018

If you know Lyme Park, it is because it was used in the 2005 movie “Pride and Prejudice” as the stand-in for Pemberly, Darcy’s ancestral home. Out on a hillside is an odd tower, several stories tall. There was no princess trapped above. That’s another story. Click on any thumbnail image to see it larger […]

Curbar Edge, Derbyshire, England, April, 2018

Curbar Edge is one of many edges in Peak District National Park in England. Here are a few photos from April 21, 2018. Click on any thumbnail image to see it larger in a slide show. To return here, click on the “x” in the upper right of the slide show, or press the ESC […]

Cave Dale and Mam Tor, Castleton, Derbyshire, England, April, 2018

In the Peak District National Park, this hike from Castleton, up Cave Dale, across the moor, down to the road, up Mam Tor, and back down to Castleton was our favorite walk of our visit, in part because it was a sunny day. There is an old castle above Castleton, there are many caves along […]

Brodsworth Hall, South Yorkshire, England, April, 2018

Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire was the youngest of the stately homes that my wife and I visited in April, 2018, but it had a special feel to it because, after it was built in the 1860s, no one improved upon it. Instead, the owners let it age because none of the descendants were as […]

Stanage Edge, Peak District, Derbyshire, England, 2018

The lovely cinematography of Roman Osin found in the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice inspired us to come to the Peak District and to Stanage Edge in particular. Of course the danger with any such visit is that the chances are slim of finding the idyllic lighting found in movies, especially if you are […]

Tissington Hall, Derbyshire, England

In exchange for a reasonable donation to help cover his home’s expenses, Sir Richard Ranulph FitzHerbert, 9th Baronet, led us on a tour of his home, Tissington Hall, in the Peak District of Derbyshire. We won the prize for coming the furthest for the tour of this house, not only for driving the furthest that […]

Oldham, Greenfield, and Huddersfield Narrow Canal, England

Oldham was a surprise. What was an industrial mill town is now a multi-cultural city. Greenfield was where we stayed during the second half of our visit in April, 2018, near the Huddersfield Narrow Canal.  If you would like to purchase one of these photographs as a print or digital file, please contact me. Click […]

Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England, 2018

The Peak District in April, 2018, was often cold and wet. It snowed the day before we got there. That made tours of stately homes attractive, since they were dry and warm inside. This home the grandest, with modern art from the Tate thrown into the bargain.  If you would like to purchase one of […]

Hope House Costume Museum, Alstonefield, England

On our first Sunday in April, 2018, in Peak District National Park in England, we worshiped at St. Peter’s Church in Alstonefield. (Are the fields around there all stone? I did not ask.) Parts of St. Peter’s church (made of stone) date to the 12th century. Their bishop was there the same day we were, […]

Haddon Hall, Derbyshire, England, 2018

This is one of five stately homes my wife and I visited during a three-week stay in the Peak District National Park in England. It was not only the oldest but the most memorable, possibly because it had such a sense of agelessness, that things were now what they had been for centuries, going back […]

Dove Dale, Peak District National Park, England

Perhaps because this is such a popular place, many guidebooks skip over it, yet this is one of the better walks in the Peak District. Once you get beyond the stepping stones, the number of other hikers decreases dramatically. The hike up from the valley floor is steep; just take your time. We were thrilled […]