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New Boots & Milk Trick

1 SEPTEMBER 05 “Hugh, I bought a new pair of farm boots today.” “Oh, yeah, Whadcha get?” “Oh, just a pair of rubber boots – barn boots – for mucking and the mud.” “Like these?”

Stuck Calf

“Why don’t you come on over? It is something you have never seen…it’ll be interesting.” This is Roger-code for: a cow has done something really stupid and you’re not going to believe it unless you

On Becoming a Pro

Chapter 4 – American Vision – Amphoto Books Imagine yourself as a participant at a workshop that features John Shaw, Wayne Lynch and David Middleton as teachers. In the late afternoon, you are invited to

New Photo Year

The Nature Photographer’s Year The most common question I am asked as a professional nature photographer is “When is the best time to go to ______?”  You fill in the blank – Texas or Tucson

Over-Doing It

I just finished a workshop on the Oregon coast and realized an important addition to my last post about personal resolution. In that article I was encouraging photographers to increase their own personal resolution by

A Bit of News

Well, its been an traumatic 7 months for me- I’ve lost my dad, my mother-in-law and my surrogate grandfather. Each one is a huge loss for me but each one was ready to go and

Your Resolution

What is Your Resolution? I don’t mean to be a curmudgeon (that is not entirely true) but what is it these days with this unholy quest for ever-higher resolution? It wasn’t too long ago when

Hugh

Hugh Bromley died early this morning in his sleep in the same room in his house that his wife, Joan, died 4 years ago. He was in his 96th year, as he would say, the

Oregon Coast Workshop

I wanted to let you all know that there are still a few places left on my Oregon Coast workshop. The workshop is in Newport, Oregon on the central coast July 18 – 22. Sign-ups

Critique-speak

Over the last almost 30 years of doing critiques at my workshops I have come to realize that I say the same few things over and over again. It is not because I am unimaginative

Common Mistakes Photographers Make

Photographers… 1. Include too much in picture Photographers are to prone add compositional elements to their initial creative vision- more foreground, the trees over there, the sky, that barn, the tree tops- but it is

Travel (hand held) Composition

In my previous post I wrote all about the technical side of travel (hand-held) photography- low light, high ISO, more open f-stops, faster shutter speeds, smaller depth of field, etc. All good stuff and important

About David

David Middleton is a professional outdoor photographer, teacher and writer. David has been a professional photographer for more than 30 years and has traveled extensively throughout all of the US and Canada and much of Central and South America, South and east Africa and Australia.

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