by David Middleton | Dec 25, 2011 | Articles
Tis the season, the season to look back and take stock of the year past as we look forward to the year to come. And I have had a year that requires much looking back upon. From the joys of a new book and new students to the quite literal heartbreak of a mid-year heart...
by David Middleton | Dec 24, 2011 | Articles
Happy Holidays to Everyone Wide and Far!!!! May your f-stops be plentiful, your shutter speeds accurate and your ISO noise-free! And may you have the courage to try something completely different this year and the joy to laugh at your mistakes and...
by David Middleton | Dec 21, 2011 | Articles
Change “Change is a tonic.” Boy, I wish I had written that. But, I didn’t. Just another example of the many pithy things my small but perfectly formed brain has missed. It was written by William Zinsser, the author of the best book about writing (On Writing Well) and...
by David Middleton | Dec 21, 2011 | Articles
The hardest part of the class, Shooting and Thinking like a Pro, that I teach with Scott Rouse and Jeff Wendorff is coming up with a title that captures everything that we do in the class. I have taught the class for more than 15 years and it must have had half a...
by David Middleton | Dec 5, 2011 | Articles
Tis the season for many of us to go out into the elements and photograph snowy winter scenes. I have done this for years and for many of them I was often disappointed with the images I got. They were perfectly nice and technically fine but there was something missing-...