These are a small sampling of photographs I’ve taken over the years. Some will soon (I hope) be scanned from film positives and film negatives and also slides. After about 2001 I switched to digital camera equipment and never went back to film. This web presence began mainly for my own enjoyment and to show my photos to others interested. Some are of very good quality and “suitable for framing”. Most are meaningful to me alone. I make no claims of extraordinary skill in the area of photography. I just love to do it. The photos speak for themselves (or not). In the interest of Internet loading time, the resolutions here are modest but many of the originals can be printed in 8 x 10 or even larger formats with choices of paper and finish. The ink is supposed to last about 200 years! That of course remains to be seen. I use an HP Photosmart Pro B9180 for prints up to 13 x 19. Got it in November of 2007 and I like it very much so far.
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Please email me if you are interested in purchasing copies of any of the photos on this web site. Many of them are available for sale. Please do not use any of these photos for any purpose without first obtaining explicit permission to do so. Thank you and enjoy!
Like many of us, I’ve always been drawn to the visual image. I’m amazed sometimes how a scene changes completely with the most subtle shift of lighting or composition. In nature (as opposed to the studio) things are constantly moving, changing. Its like capturing a single frame of a movie to show what several frames just showed or are showing me. That’s exciting and challenging.
Very few of the photos on this web site have been tweaked post camera in my computer. Not that they might not benefit from some effort and skill in that area. That is just not an area that interests me. When I used to throw on a potter’s wheel, I rarely saved or even fired or glazed anything. I just like throwing pots. I suppose my photography is a little like that.
One of the big draws for me to switch to digital, even before the resolutions approaching film were possible, was the immediate feedback I could get about the shots I just took. Even by taking careful notes in a journal while shooting, by the time I got proofs back from the lab, I rarely could remember just how I did something to get the photo. So I was hot on digital right away and later even had a hand in convincing some “real photographer” friends of mine to take the plunge into digital. They are all glad they did.
Recently, I was driving the 2 lane road to town on a quiet morning. On the side of the road lay a deer, recently killed by a car. This is always sad for me being an animal lover. This was unusual because the deer didn’t have a mark on him. He was beautiful and still and looked to be asleep on its side. Perched atop the deer stood a fully matured Bald Eagle. Their combined height was taller than my car! It was striking indeed. I immediately slowed and came to a stop right opposite the eagle standing straight and tall. It was one of those moments and there was no one around. The eagle seems to be considering just what to do with this huge “meal”. I felt like I could hear him thinking, “should I dig in, or are these cars going to be just too much of a bother”? I sat there in my car for several minutes and then seeing a car appear in my rear view mirror, slowly moved away down the road to town. As you’ve probably guessed, I didn’t have my camera with me. So now it’s a “fish” or eagle story. No pictures!
I realized that many of the shots I really like present themselves without warning and even if I have my 40D with me, I’m not really ready. And, usually I don’t even have the 40D with me. All that stuff is just too much to carry around all the time. I was trying to make the 40D something it’s not. So, enter the little Lumix/Leica TZ5 camera. A (somewhat) pocketable camera with fine Leica optics with IS and a broad reach. It can’t produce the quality of the 40D setup of course. But it can come close and there’s one thing it does very well. It can be with me pretty much all the time. Sounds like a no-brainer (some of us are slow I guess) but without a camera, there’s NO picture at all - of any quality! Now, I try to have the TZ5 with me all the time and I go on special photo outings with the 40D. This seems to work much better for me.
I sincerely hope you find this site fun, interesting and pleasurable. Any constructive feedback is very welcome - even if its critical. I now have the capability to sell prints too that are of high quality for those interested. Just contact me via email (button below).
Be well and enjoy,
David Selwyn
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