David’s Blog
Wingbeats Update
At last, the travel, research, scribbling, writing and editing are finished; my manuscript is complete. The book is a hybrid memoir/science genre that tells the story of the people and places I met following the spring migration of Blackburnian warblers from Ecuador to my home mountains of Vermont. It’s been quite a journey. I started my book, working...
Tofino, British Columbia, Gallery
Time to crow about a great workshop that Brenda Berry and I completed last week. Tofino, BC, sits mid-coast on Vancouver Island on the tip of a peninsula bounded by the Pacific Ocean and the Cayquot Sound. It is a photographer's playground with giant trees over 1000 years old, very cooperative black bears prowling the shore, beaches that go on forever and...
Tidepool update
I have just gotten back from my workshop in Tofino, BC., and I have sad ecological news. The tide pools that I have raved about, that I look forward to seeing and photographing so much are basically decimated. I saw none of the giant, colorful sea stars that the Pacific coast is so famous for and very little of the coexisting critters- eel grass, anemones,...
Tidepools!!
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...
Spring Trees
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...
Crossroads Vermont workshop
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...
Hidden behind the Color
Messin' around with some pics late last night and look what I found!! There, right in front of me all this time, where some really nice black and white forest images! they had been hiding behind all the wonderful color! Several of the 20 or so pics I turned into b&w in Lightroom where color images that were nice but didn't quite make it as really nice....
Photographing the Forest
Forests are some of the hardest environments to photograph in, at least they are for me. I doubt anyone has taken more pictures in forests over the last 30 years but still I find it an extremely challenging place to find a good image. The problem is that there is just so much stuff going on visually it seems almost impossible to make any sense of it so...
Spring Tulips!
Since it is cold, dreary and miserable here in the Northeast I thought I would post some very Spring tulip pics. These were all taken one morning in the Keukenhof Garden, an internationally famous garden in the Netherlands, I visited a couple of years ago. April is tulip season in the Netherlands so if these photos interest you I would get ye' to Amsterdam...
Making a Difference with your Photography
Have we all had, by now, just enough of the ‘Hey, look what I did!’ part of photography? We show our friends, we show our family, we show our camera clubbers, we show our workmates, our neighbors, our maids, our butlers, we basically show everyone we possibly can our pictures...and then what? Are we doing all this work, putting in all this time, spending...
Oldies-4
Okay, just one more (maybe). This is a shot of the tundra in Denali National Park in early September- the peak of their fall color! There were miles and miles of magnificent tundra- all right under your feet! Of course, there were also grizzly bears and caribou and moose and that terribly distracting towering white mountain- Denali- to photograph as well....