Danny N. Schweers: All The Posts

My Episodic History As A Writer

An acquaintance recently invited me to join a writing group, a very organized group, with agendas and roles. I like the sound of it! New members are asked to share their writing backgrounds. Here is mine. Photo Prayers Every week since 2007 (well, most weeks), I write a prayer and pair it with a photograph. […]

He admitted to himself it had him.

“William Weigland took a hurried look at the sketch map, decided to chance it, and swung left off Route 22 on a narrow macadam road. He drove a few hundred yards and pulled the Buick to the side of the road. He stared at the map and admitted to himself that it had him.” […]

Open Gates: Photo Prayers by Danny Schweers on Exhibit in Delaware

Photographs and Text by Danny Schweers in Wilmington, Delaware. Scroll down to see images from the show. This exhibit opened on March 6, 2020, at the Buzz Ware Village Center in the Village of Arden, Delaware. Three days later the building was shuttered due to the COVID-19 — ironic for an exhibit called “Open Gates.” […]

Seven Comments on Change

As part of its exhibit “Sea Change”, the Washington Printmakers Gallery in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. asked me to say something about change. Click here to see my “Seven Comments on Change” — words and photos taken from my Photo Prayer project over the past ten years. The photo is me as a […]

Book of Days Murder of Michael Cahill

The Fox-TV show, America’s Most Wanted, first aired the Book of Days Murder segment in 2007. The television crew came to Arden to interview me and then flew to Texas and California to interview other photographers about the unsolved murder of Mike Cahill that took place in 1979 in Austin, Texas, a murder tied to […]

Ray Seigfried, Delaware State Representative, District 7

Ray Seigfried deserves your vote in the Democratic Primary on Tuesday, September 15, 2020. I have worked with Ray Seigfried for many years. For eight years, he was elected to and chaired the Community Planning Committee here in the Village of Arden, Delaware. I also served on that committee and saw first-hand how diligent Ray […]

Ideas and Enthusiasm

Why do ideas, so brilliant when they first inspire us, appear deadly dull when we return to them? Ideas of things to do are like fireworks when they first come to mind. As each one appears, I can hardly wait to pursue it. I quickly jot it down, looking forward to taking it up when […]

Recommended: Second Chances Farm, Wilmington, Delaware

Chief Financial Officer Jon Brilliant wants to create for-profit solutions to non-profit problems. He is a partner at Second Chances Farm in Wilmington, Delaware because it offers people leaving prison a real job with, shall we say, growth potential. On Monday, July 20, 2020, some one hundred of us were treated to a tour of […]

Recommended: Planet Walker by John Francis

Easily dismissed as a hippie new-age environmentalist nut case, this memoir by John Francis gives us the inside view of an extraordinary man who spent 22 years walking and bicycling, rowing and sailing, without ever riding in a motorized vehicle. Seventeen of those years, he went without speaking. He tied these two decisions to a […]

Steaming Asparagus

The steam escaping from the boiling pot makes a lively percussion, a beat not quite regular, not quite random, a mixture of mechanical and natural. The sound dies after I turn off the fire. The asparagus, by the way, were delicious. Click here to watch more riveting videos on the Danny Schweers YouTube Channel.

What do we need? What should we pray for?

Soon to die of an assassin’s bullet, Louisiana Governor Huey Long’s last words were, “God, don’t let me die. I have so much to do.” Foolishly, he thought more time was the answer. It is not. If we were given ten extra years of health, or twenty, it would not be enough to get everything […]

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 […]

Torn Love Stitched in Your Daily Photograph

My image — Torn Love Stitched — was featured on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 in the Your Daily Photograph email blast from the Duncan Miller Gallery in Santa Monica, California. This is my third image to be featured. The last two sold immediately! To see the Your Daily Photograph post of 4 February, 2020, visit: […]

“Florida” Selected for Rehoboth Art League Exhibit

I am delighted that “Florida” — an ominous photograph with contrarian text — has been selected for the 5th Annual Regional Juried Photography Exhibition at the Rehoboth Art League (RAL), 12 Dodds Lane in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. Opening reception, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., Friday, January 31, 2020. Juror’s Talk by Gabrielle Tillenburg, Saturday, February […]

Portrait Photography Workshop, Delaware Art Museum, January, 2020

This was Iris McKenney’s first time to model for photographers and my first time working with a live model and students. Iris made it a delightful experience, putting the students (and me) at ease, striking one pose after another, not rapid-fire but measured, like she was in a slow-motion slide show dance. Students were encouraged […]

Bread and Variety

Bread has been a symbol of sustenance as well as boredom for many thousands of years. When the tribes of Israel, fleeing from captivity in Egypt, were nearly dying of hunger in the desert, God rained down manna upon them — the bread of heaven. But soon, miraculous as this food was, people got bored […]

Photo Classes and Workshops, Wilmington, Delaware

I teach photography lessons in Wilmington, Delaware, primarily at the Delaware Art Museum but also at Mt. Cuba Center and privately. COVID-19 UPDATE: With the current State of Emergency in effect, I am only teaching privately by video conference. Contact me to learn more! Delaware Art Museum ADOBE LIGHTROOM AND PHOTOSHOP: Learn how to use […]

Jazz Quartet Photos: Jonathan Whitney, Joe Anderson, Tom Palmer and Rob Swanson

Churches have become a frequent venue for performances of jazz music. At the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in Wilmington, Delaware, these performances often happen in the context of services of Vespers. This service featured an opening prayer, a reading of “The Creation” by James Weldon Johnson, quotes from the Pope’s Encyclical on […]

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 […]

Neumann University Exhibit, Fall, 2019

Here are some the best of my photo prayers, as formatted for exhibits and publications. To see them on small screens, visit PhotoPrayer.com. These photographs, with hand-written text, were on exhibit at the McNichol Gallery, Neumann University, Aston, Pennsylvania, Oct. 16 thru Dec. 9, 2019. Click on any image below to see it larger in […]

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 […]