On Becoming a Pro
November 8, 2008
Faces of Northern Kenya
I Still Take Photos
I still take photos, I just don’t try to sell them anymore. My book project is all words, there won’t be any photos included but that doesn’t mean I don’t see and then capture images
Big flight of Migrants
Wingbeats in the Night Last night, October 8th, 1.25 billion songbirds migrated across the Untied States; a hugely spectacular number. A normal big migration flight in the Fall is 700 to 800 million birds. In
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
On Writing
It is much easier to begin not to write than it is to not write once you begin.
I’m Back!
It has been a long few years but I’m back now, cranking away, as creative and grumpy as I have always been. The book I started 4 years ago is now mostly finished- just a
How to Write a Book
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
On Photography
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
On the night of April 25th, 2021
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
Reflections
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
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.
