by David Middleton | Feb 1, 2023 | Articles, Thoughts
Since you didn’t ask, I thought I would give you, my lone reader, a personalized insider’s view of the hows, whys and wherefores of writing a book. I have done this 12 times in the past and I still don’t really know how it happens and I certainly haven’t learned how...
by David Middleton | Jan 15, 2023 | Articles, On Photography, Thoughts
There are rules, guidelines, suggestions, recommendations, procedures, instructions and directions in photography and all of them are handy most of the time and dreadful some of the time. As is said “Rules are made to be broken.” But there are also Laws in photography...
by David Middleton | Apr 25, 2021 | Articles, Nature
On the night of April 25th, 2021, one hundred million migrating birds, flying northeast, crossed the Texas coast. One night, over 100 million birds; how is this comprehendible? It’s not, not to mostly daylight living humans firmly stuck to the hard ground of...
by David Middleton | Nov 18, 2016 | Articles
Reflections are a very popular subject to photograph- our eye is attracted to the odd nature of seeing part of the world upside down! While it seems very straight forward to take a picture of a reflection it is more difficult than you think if you want to get...
by David Middleton | Nov 15, 2016 | Articles, On Photography
All is not lost when the colorful autumn leaves fall to the ground- there is still much to photograph. One of my favorite things to photograph in late fall is milkweed. The exploding seed pods are endless fascinating and encourage lots of playful...
by David Middleton | Oct 10, 2016 | Articles, Featured Stories, On Writing, Stories
This is Gideon, Gideon Owour. He lives in far western Kenya near the shore of Lake Victoria in the small rural village of Pap-Onditi. ‘Pap’ means a flat, dry place in the Luo language; ‘Onditi’ is a name of a local family — Onditi’s flat, dry area. Gideon is in 7th...
