Photography according to Thoreau

Who knew that Henry David Thoreau would be the author of the best photography advice you would ever get? I didn’t until I read it on an old t-shirt, the one I’m wearing right now,

Wish you weren’t there

That’s right. I wish you weren’t there- right smack dab in the middle of the picture, your ugly mug smiling at me blocking all the neat stuff beyond. Your nose is blown all out of

Getting to the Point

I was going to continue with my weather/photography related posts hitting bright sun, heavy overcast, etc. but even I got bored with the thought of reading them. So I’ll get right to the point. Rather

Back to the Barn!

I was nosing around this morning at the farm and came upon these two gear still lifes. There are at least a dozen old barns on the farm and each one has stuff hanging on

Fog 2

Ok, I seem to be on a roll, a weather roll. Here are some of my favorite fog photos…I couldn’t resist. I love to photograph in the fog because fog wipes out the background replacing

A visitor in the night

I had a strange and wonderful visitor in the dark last night, a male luna moth. What a wondrous animal! It is about 4″ long and 3″ wide with a white body and tiny red

Rain

So I started to think about other surprising weather conditions that I like for photography and I came up with my all time favorite…Rain! I then opened up Lightroom and typed in ‘rain’ in the

Horse Barn Swallow

I had a little fun with a pair of barn swallows in the horse barn on the dairy farm where I help with chores. The pair was nesting 20′ back from the big doors and

Fog and Forests!

Boy I love fog! As soon as the the clouds descend or the fog envelopes I head for the forest. The combination of fog and forest equals magical photography. The best part of fog in

Crossroads Vermont!!

The Crossroads Vermont workshop is complete and what a great workshop it was!!! Any workshop is exactly as good as the people who come to learn and stretch and experience a new area and we

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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