David’s Blog
More Oldies-2
There was a time when I spent every April photographing desert flowers in Arizona. I haven't been back in two decades but looking at this image it makes me want to go back and do it all over again. I took this Globemallow with my Pentax 6x7 medium format camera. It wasn't very good for close-ups but from a couple of feet away it worked really well. I was...
Wine Country
Looking for any excuse to get out of the protracted winter we have been having in Vermont, Claire and I headed out to California to scout and do some preliminary research for a book project on wine country. This is vacation photography, nothing serious. The book is still a year or two away but I wanted to see what the competition and what the potential for...
My First Video!!
It has been awhile and there have been a few false starts but finally, with the considerable help from friends I am able to share my first video with you. There is nothing very special about this video and you will learn nothing by watching it but I hope you enjoy it. I shot this video with my Nikon D3s at a lodge in Ecuador last January. This was one of 6...
Thinking Like a Pro
Thinking Like a Pro For a few years now I have been doing a program that I call “Thinking Like a Pro.” Setting aside the obvious jokes about pro photographers and thinking it is a program that encapsulates how I have gone about the business of photography for many years. I think it is one of the best programs I do and perhaps one of the most...
Stuck in Paradise
It is hard to complain about being in Florida in March when the alternative is Vermont in March. Here it is 82 and bright sun and at home it is 42 and cloudy. And yet here I am just a wee bit grumpy that there is so little to do (I am not a lay-around beach person) and even less to photograph (I am definitely not a palm tree/beach sunset person). So what...
My Camera Settings
Since we are talking about questions I am often asked here is another popular one- “What settings do use on your camera?” These are the settings I use for a vast majority of the time. Under specific circumstances I do use other setting but I have to have a specific reason to do so. I use matrix metering (Canon calls it evaluative metering)-...
And Another Thing…
I am just about fed up with the out of control egos so common with bird photographers. So here are some new rules: If you have to announce that you are the best bird photographer- you aren't, you are a jerk. If you tell everyone how much money you made on a shot, you didn't and you are a jerk. If you step in front of other photographers because you are...
Pacific Rim National Park workshop
I wanted to let everyone know that there are just a couple of spots left on my Pacific Rim National Park workshop in Tofino, Vancouver Island. It is a great workshop in perhaps the prettiest, most wild spot I have ever done a workshop. Some of the things we are going to see are magnificent tide pools, old-growth cedar trees 15' across and black bears...
Shooting Like a Pro class
My class on professional photography- Shooting Like a Pro- is officially being offered for June 19-25 this year.The workshop is my favorite class that I teach because there is a lot of student participation and involvement and it is great, supportive creative environment where each student gets lots of help developing their own path to follow.
I Shoot Horses, Don’t I?
This is how I amuse myself in a snowstorm- I go out and photograph horses.
Town Meeting Day
town meeting day