About

After several decades pulling books from dusty library shelves and finding answers to reference questions, David changed careers and is now an outdoor photographer and instructor.  His photo travels have taken him throughout the greater Baltimore/Washington DC metropolitan area, the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland’s mountains, West Virginia, the Mid-Atlantic Region, the American Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and Western Europe.

David is an avid writer whose how-to articles have appeared on several websites including Photographers Alliance Workshops and Budget Travel. His first illustrated magazine article will be published later in 2009.

Each year David leads a number of photo tours, trips and workshops in and around Baltimore, Maryland and throughout the greater Mid-Atlantic region.  During the summer months he teaches digital photography at a private school in Washington, DC.  His students are the young and the young-at-heart.  He is an informed and patient teacher whose enthusiasm for photography is contagious.

In addition to the events he offers through Baltimore Photo Safari, David is an instructor in the awesome new photo workshop and tour company called the Photographers Alliance Workshops (PAW).  The following statement from the PAW website best describes what Photographers Alliance Workshops is all about and why so many folks are excited to register for these workshops:

“The Photographer’s Alliance Workshops (PAW) is a new photography workshop and tour company dedicated to exemplary teaching and superb photography.  It is a community of professional photographers brought together to teach and to share their passion for photography.  Simply, we are photographers from all over the country who love to help other photographers be their best.  No nonsense, no excuses, no inflated egos, no huge overhead; just folks taking pictures, teaching photography and loving what they are doing.  PAW is how photography ought to be taught.”

Recently, David and his wife moved from the suburbs to one of the historic neighborhoods surrounding Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.  Catsby, their cat, graciously allows them to live with her in this new house.  When he is not behind the lens of his camera, David enjoys reading, walking, hiking, seeking out new restaurants, and doing chores (generally dog-sitting) for his two daughters who each live a few blocks away.