Here are images from four days strolling around the Arts District of Riverside, California in 2026. I photographed what caught my eye, so this collection of images may not give you a true sense of what the city looks like but will, I think, give you some idea of what scenes I believe make good […]
Posts By Place
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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. Forget mountain majesty. South of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, the Delmarva Peninsula has marshes and tidal rivers, big skies and flat farm land. The Delmarva Peninsula is divided up into parts […]
Ardencroft 75th Anniversary Celebration
The Village of Ardencroft, founded in 1950, purposely made no restrictions as to who might purchase property. Most developments at the time had racial exclusions. Pauline Young was one of the first residents. At the 75th celebration of the founding of Ardencroft, an existing park was named for her. Speakers remembered her and other civil […]
Arden, Delaware – Fire Hydrant Spray People
2012 thru 2025, Arden, Delaware — Every year, the Arden Community Recreation Association hosts its July 4th Games on the green in the Village of Arden, Delaware, where I live. The gathering ends with people cavorting in spray shot from a fire hydrant. I love how stately the gyrating people look when photographed. They are […]
Ardencroft, Delaware Maps
The Village of Ardencroft, Delaware asked me to photograph two maps from 1953 of the municipality’s street and lot plan. Click on either image to see it larger. To get high-resolution JPEGs, please use the Contact Us form on this website.
Photograph What Is Close At Hand
Good, even great photographs may be found anywhere, at any time. There is no need to travel to get good photos. Washing dishes, mowing the yard, pumping gas, buying groceries — all of these are prime locations for wonderful images. Recognizing the photogenic in the ordinary can be challenging. When I travel, my eyes seem […]
Arden Fair, Delaware
When the weather cooperates, the Arden Fair takes over my neighborhood with crowds, vendors, musicians, artists, food, books, crafts, and wizards. This annual event benefits the Arden Club, the cultural umbrella for Arden, Delaware. It has many gilds including Ardensingers, Shakespeare, Swim, Garden, Writing, Folk, Georgist, Library, Scholars, Dinner, and Concert, all headquartered in Gild […]
Pennsylvania Just North of Delaware
The water tower at Oakbourne Park. The main house is splendid as well, while the grounds feature many different trees and shrubs. There is a large sports complex and a walking path. I only discovered this gem last year, after living so close to it for 23 years. What other pleasant surprises have I missed? […]
Bellevue State Park, Wilmington, Delaware
Bellevue State Park is an often-visited place for me, not far from where I live in Delaware. When this park was a DuPont estate, they had race horses and an oval track. Horses no longer use the track — that’s for walkers and runners — but the horse stables are still there, home to 70 […]
Las Vegas Strip, April 2023
Any event becomes exciting if you bet money on it. Where will the wheel stop? What card will turn over next? When will the stars align? I could not spend nine days in Las Vegas without visiting The Strip with camera in hand, from the MGM Park to the Bellagio. Of course I went […]
Austin, Texas, Easter 2022
I have been walking downtown Austin, Texas since 1970. You can click here to see some of my early photographs of the city, now in an archive at the Austin History Center. I lived in Austin for 30 years but, even after moving to Arden, Delaware in 2000, I continue to visit and photograph this […]
Ten Days in Paris, Spring, 2007
The one time I was there, I went looking for intimate images of Paris. The dates were April 26 through May 3, 2007. I wanted to photograph the people and places tourists would miss — the idiosyncratic and personal — photos distinctly my own yet also distinctly Parisian, not forgetting the inspiration of Henri Cartier-Bresson. […]
Twenty-Six Hours in New York City, January, 2023
My wife, perhaps at some cost, has accepted that I am a photographer. If we visit a city like New York, chances are good that I will be making photographs. It makes me a less than ideal companion. God bless her. Here is a sample of a 26-hour visit to New York City in January […]
Fog in the City Center, Wilmington, Delaware
Fog makes things intimate. The close at hand is detailed while the distant becomes ghostly. Fog makes the visual behave like our memories. In memory, what is recent is detailed but fades as it moves into the distant past. One of the primary rules of composition is to separate subject from background. There are many […]
Zion National Park, November, 2012
These 68 photographs of Zion National Park in Utah were made over a period of six days in November, 2012. The Zion landscape is often photographed, yet I hope you will find a few images here that are unexpected. Questions? Comments? Please click her to contact me. Click on any thumbnail below to see it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]