Danny Schweers

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Photography Print Festival, June 7-21, 2019.

Five Prints by Danny N. Schweers, Photography Print Festival, June 7-21, 2019, Chris White Gallery, 701 N. Shipley Street, Wilmington, DE 19801. Opening Reception: Friday, June 7, 2019, 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. Closing Reception: Friday, June 21, 2019, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Galley Hours: Mondays (June 10 & 17) and Wednesdays (June 12 & 19), […]

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 […]

It is Good to be Recognized

Bill Moore of New Castle Presbytery in Wilmington, Delaware wrote the following on the day of Barnard Kabibu’s death, 10/18/2018: “We in New Castle Presbytery visited with Barnard Kabibu [in the Democratic Republic of the Congo] in 2008 to deliver some medicines, and provided him with a Photopriere for IMCK/Good Shepherd hospital. Bernard was most […]

Panorama Photos

For many years, Delaware’s News Journal newspaper published a panorama photo at the top its local news section. I occasionally submitted, and they occasionally published, my images. Photographers should be paid for their work but I don’t mind giving these images to the News Journal to use, especially since the paper has been so generous […]

Removing A Dam, Wilmington, Delaware

Two new 24-inch pressurized water mains are being buried 8-feet below Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Delaware, taking drinking water from one side of the city to the other. Once the two new water mains are in place, the old water mains will be removed. Those large pipes, when installed in 1914, form a dam across […]