David’s Blog

One of the hardest things I do in my photography is to try to show something that is really big to be really big in the final image. What generally happens is that anything that is of unusual size (I suppose the really small things have the same issue) magically become 'normal' sized in your image. Really long boats shrink to normal sized boats, huge waves...

    I'll get right to the point here- photographing from a boat isn't easy Sooner or later we all get the opportunity to photograph from a boat. In many cases it is the only way to get a good picture. In my career I have photographed whales (a lot), seals, sea lions, dolphins, penguins, gulls, albatrosses, jellyfish, commercial fishing boats,...

I have photographed a lot of horses in my time- from old nags on old farms to prized thoroughbreds in Kentucky- so I know a little bit about how to shoot a horse. But watching my friend and professional fine art horse photographer, Lisa Cueman at work is always revelatory. Lisa works angles and perspectives that would never occur to me. I have always shot...

Last week I went out photographing with my friend Lisa Cumen an extremely accomplished equine fine art photographer. When I say I went out photographing what I mean is that I held her lenses and water bottle while she did what she does so well- create magic. And by the way, I was quite happy to do so. I love watching artists at work. Lisa was shooting on...

Every so often I volunteer to photograph a neighbors wedding- happens about once every 5 years. I know every photographer hates to photograph weddings but I find it a mildly amusing puzzle- how am I going to get good shots under these typically dreadful conditions? So yesterday I went down the road and photographed my friend John's daughter's wedding....

I'm up in Tofino, British Columbia, on the Pacific side of Vancouver Island doing a workshop for Santa Fe Photography Workshops. This is one of my all-time favorite places to teach and photograph because there are so many subjects to shoot and all the locations are easily accessible and close to town. Within 30 minutes of our base there are bears prowling...

There are lots of things to photograph in Spring other than wildflowers (even though I Love to photograph flowers!). One of my other favorite things to photograph is usually overlooked- the first tree leaves of Spring. I like to do portraits of the very first little tree leaves when they first come out- they are so soft and velvety- they are beautifully...

There are still spots left on my Vermont Crossroads workshop that I am doing in June in my home area in southern Vermont. This year we will have two non-profit partners- the Vermont Land Trust and the Dorset Equine Rescue. We are photographing a brand new property for the Land Trust this year- the Merck Forest, a 3000+ acre working forest that is an...