David’s Blog

Okay, listen up, this is going to be your next photo project. You are going to compile a notebook of your favorite places to photograph in your area. Below is the form I used when I did this 15 years ago and produced the first three Photographer's Guide series published by The Countryman Press. This is why you are going to do this. First, it is very easy-...

Ever wonder why other people see UFOs and you don't? I bet even your friends don't see flying saucers. There are lots of reports of unidentified flying spaceships but no one I know claims to have filed one. Why is it that only a special few see UFOs and the rest of us don't? At last I have figured it out! This is a picture I took on Colorado State Highway...

This image is what I would call the essence of what we are trying to do with Crossroads Photography Workshops. It is a new metal railing at the Randel Davey Audubon Nature Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Not very exciting is it? But it is very important. I should probably explain. In a Crossroads Workshop, the class and instructors become Team Crossroads...

We (Brenda Berry, Ruth Connor and I) have just completed the first Crossroads Photography workshop with the Santa Fe Workshops down in Santa Fe, NM and it was a wonderful success. Eighteen months in pondering, planning and preparation, the workshop exceeded even my optimistic expectations. We had two non-profit partners (our third partner proved too...

I am asked this all the time- how did you take that picture? Most of the time the person wants to know the technical side of the answer- the lens I used, the shutter speed, etc. And most of the time that is the least important part of the answer. Let me explain. Sure it is important to have the technical ability to be able to take a photo in extreme...

Here are my favorite pictures from my last trip to Kenya. They need a bit of explanation. All the pictures I took were to the cause of helping New Course further its mission and to gather images for my new non-profit foundation All About the Light. The circumstances around these shots are pretty severe. Many were taken at night or at twilight- necessary to...

The main reason I went to Kenya was to photographically support the work of the environmental non-profit New Course. This is the same non-profit I first went to Uganda with last March. New Course has put in place a program to help empower women using Luci Lights. (Lucie Lights are those small, plastic, inflatable solar light that I have written here much...

Well I'm back from Africa as dim-witted and soggy headed as ever! It was a hard trip for me- all work, horrible light and high expectations. There is nothing glamorous about photography when you are working in a developing country in the high heat of the day in a tough landscape with nothing but rock hard dirt and scraggly trees as company. I learned a...

Just a quick note to tell you that the Crossroads Photography Workshops that I am doing through Santa Fe Workshops are filling up. Remember, these workshops are not your traditional photography workshop- at Crossroads, the workshop is run as if we are all 'on assignment' for our partner non-profit organizations. The images we take will be donated to the...