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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 by Danny N. SchweersPhoto Prayers

Every week since 2007 (well, most weeks), I write a prayer and pair it with a photograph. I email these Photo Prayers to subscribers and post them on the Internet. Once a month, Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware chooses one to include in its Weekly Word email blast to members. You can see all 687 of them at:
http://photoprayer.com/

Essays By Danny SchweersEssays On This Website

Occasionally, I will write an essay and post it on this website. Click here to see them all.

Austin Sun

Bits of my writing appear on the Austin Sun website, a reincarnation of the weekly politics and entertainment tabloid I worked on in the mid-1970s. My essay “Wrestling With Donald Trump” remains one of that website’s most viewed articles. It still holds up! See:
https://www.austinsun.us/single-post/2017/02/16/Wrestling-with-Donald-Trump

The Rag

Like many, I started by writing term papers but, while still in graduate school (Philosophy, the University of Texas at Austin, 1970-1973), I started working on The Rag, the weekly underground newspaper. What an education with those hippie anarchists! See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rag

Austin Book of Days Photographic Desk Calendar

For decades, I made a living in the mechanical side of publishing. I had a typesetting business, then a service bureau, then a graphics arts studio. After moving to Arden, Delaware in 2000, I designed and hosted websites for a living, although I am now retired. In all that, I and various partners published the Austin Book of Days Photographic Calendar for 13 years. See:
http://www.w2mw.com/bookDays/index.htm

Image: A Journal of Art and Religion

For six months, immediately after moving to Delaware, I served as managing editor of Image: A Journal of Art and Religion. That did not involve writing, though it did give me occasion to talk to George Plimpton and make a call to Mary Oliver. See:
https://imagejournal.org/

Things Left Undone

I hope to get back to work on a book I started in the 1990s, a book called Things Left Undone. And I should publish the best of my Photo Prayers. Those are two current ambitions. Every morning I wake with a new ambition. It is a wonder any one idea becomes incarnate. When that has happened, usually other people have appeared as catalysts.

—Danny Schweers, 2021-06-25

Recent Posts

  • True Posterization Using Photoshop
  • Control Motion Blur by Varying Shutter Speed
  • Composition: Lines to Corners
  • Twenty-Six Hours in New York City, January, 2023
  • Rule Of Thirds
  • Explore Your Camera’s ISO Settings
  • Fog in the City Center, Wilmington, Delaware
  • Student Photos from Delaware Art Museum
  • Light Painting with Camera and Flashlight
  • Photo Classes and Workshops, Wilmington, Delaware
  • Outdoor Night Photography
  • Focus
  • July Images by Danny Schweers
  • Zion National Park, November, 2012
  • Portrait Photography, Delaware Art Museum

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