“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 in 2020. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pennsylvania Dutch Country
What a pleasure it is to drive among the farms of the Amish and Mennonites in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. On back roads, you can feel like you have stepped back fifty years. Sometimes, if you can forget the gasoline-powered time machine you are driving, it can feel like centuries. That said, my photographs are seldom […]
Second Chances Farm, Wilmington, Delaware
On Monday, July 20, 2020, some one hundred of us were treated to a tour of the vertical hydroponic farm rooms, a box lunch, and speeches. A recurring theme was the idea that, having served one’s sentence in jail or prison, one should be welcomed back to full citizenship, not branded for life as an […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Explore Your Camera’s Aperture Settings
Homework Assignment No. 3: Aperture, Out-of-Focus Backgrounds The third homework assignment I give students in my digital photography class at the Delaware Art Museum is to separate subject from background by using small aperture numbers; that is, apertures with little depth of field. The subject is in focus while the background is out of focus, […]
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 […]
Ken Morrison’s Renovations
Ken Morrison, personally and with his crew, has re-built every room in our house and has built from scratch the 950-square-foot apartment attached to our house and the 500-square-foot art studio behind our house. Here are photos of his most recent accomplishment, renovating our kitchen with new windows and lighting, new electrical, a new granite […]
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