Welcome to My World

Photos, Essays, and Website Design by Danny Schweers

Welcome to My Work: Website Design
Working for churches, non-profits, artists, and others makes me feel like a Renaissance man except I have clients instead of patrons. Pray for them. Buy their art. Send them donations. Pay your taxes. Make a tithe. Visit their websites.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Click here to see what my world looks like. You'll find galleries of images, photos of Arden, Delaware, of twelve leaves and of many other pixelated subjects. Prints recently exhibited..

PUBLISHING

Book of Days Photographic Calendar With the help of many others, I published this weekly calendar for many years in Austin, Texas. Each edition featured the B&W work of 60 photographers. The unsolved Book of Days murder connected to this publishing project is still in the news.

ESSAYS

Read about my world. There are many essays here, illustrated with photos. All are insightful, humorous, and well-written -- if you believe the author.

CONTACT

Click here to get in touch.

What's around the next bend in the road? A beautiful scene and a head-on collision? We cannot tell. The possibilities are infinite, yet we careen ahead in joy like Mr. Toad, wild with delight and wonder.

Horse for sale in Wilmington, Delaware
Sundancer is a handsome guy.

Delaware Valley Chorale Holiday Concert
81 photographs of this concert and the Messiah Sing-Along that followed.

Arden Fair 2007
For 100 years now, our village has celebrated the end of summer with music, food, crafts, costumes, games, exhibits and more.

Photo Prayer
For a year or so now, I have been matching my photos with the weekly prayers said each Sunday calling the faithful to prepare for worship at a local church.

The Cultivated Eye: Brandywine Valley Photographers at the Delaware Art Museum. Four images of mine were chosen for this handsome exhibit of local landscape photography. A larger traveling photo exhibit is also at the museum.

Intimate Nature
She can be fierce but here she welcomes your embrace.
[13 photos, February, 2007)

The Book of Days, 1977-1995
756 shots by over 400 photographers.

Recommendations
Ya gotta start somewhere. I started with Herb Caen's Baghdad by the Bay. and just added Leo Kottke's Ice Fields

Website Priorities
What's important to know about websites for churches and non-profits, including how to get them to rank highly in search engines.

75 photos of Mozart's The Magic Flute

80 photos of the 99th Arden Fair

I Saw Her - A Dream Interpreted
I came across this photo and essay years after it was created as a framed piece of art. Also added is this series of journal excerpts from 1990, Singing A Hymn.

Slide Show Navigation

The Chosen Few Exhibit

The Rag Photos, 1971-1975
A few photos have survived. The Rag, an underground newspaper, was published in Austin, Texas, from 1966 to 1975. It was my introduction to publishing and community.

ADVICE

How to beat back prejudice: Don't flare up, cry vengeance, or launch competing theories. Just tell the truth. --Anthony Lane, May, 2007

LOOK AT THE WORLD

This bright hymn by John Rutter puts forward the claim that photographers need to be thankful in order to see. Here's an excerpt:

Look at the world,
so many joys and wonders.
Praise to thee, O Lord
for all creation,
give us thankful hearts
that we may see:
all the gifts we share
and every blessing,
all things come of thee.

[iTunes and other music venues have this hymn available for $0.99.]