Finding Home

Finding Home (working title) is my new book project. It’s about following a bird on its northward spring migration from South America to where it nests in my woods here in Vermont. I will be adding news, stories and images here as the book continues takes shape.

David Middleton is a professional outdoor photographer, teacher and writer.

More than an outdoor photographer, David is a gifted and enthusiastic teacher who truly enjoys sharing his experiences and expertise with people. He finds great joy helping others discover their creative potential and is very comfortable in front of people of all interests.

David is currently working on his new book project, Finding Home.

New Book Project

Finding Home

Finding Home (working title) is my new book project. It’s about following a bird on its northward spring migration from South America to where it nests in my woods here in Vermont. I will be adding news, stories and images here as the book continues takes shape.

Thoughts

I’m Back!

It has been a long few years but I'm back now, cranking away, as creative and grumpy as I have always been. The book I started 4 years ago is now mostly finished- just a couple more chapters to go- 100,000 words! - a curious number since I only know about 300 words. I will say that once I learned about verbs the writing became much easier. The book involves two interweaving stories- one on the wonders of bird migration and of me following a Blackburnian warbler from Ecuador to Vermont and the other of me overcoming the despair of covid, my mom's death and cancer. It's been a helluva 4 years....

On Writing

It is much easier to begin not to write than it is to not write once you begin.
How to Write a Book

How to Write a Book

Since you didn’t ask, I thought I would give you, my lone reader, a personalized insider’s view of the hows, whys and wherefores of writing a book. I have done this 12 times in the past and I still don’t really know how it happens and I certainly haven’t learned how to not torture myself through its completion.  Ok, you’ve decided you want to write a book....

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On Photography

On Photography

There are rules, guidelines, suggestions, recommendations, procedures, instructions and directions in photography and all of them are handy most of the time and dreadful some of the time. As is said “Rules are made to be broken.” But there are also Laws in photography that are sacrosanct, to be broken only under great penalty. Curiously, most photographers...

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