David Eisenhower
David is a photographer and a filmmaker, specializing in travel and outdoor digital photography and short documentary films.
He has traveled and lived in many countries around the world, especially in the Americas and the Caribbean. His inspiration comes from his encounters with people and places, and with those moments when color and light come together to awaken a special feeling.
Swiftcurrent Studios
Swiftcurrent Studios is a combination of studio, gallery, and film production facility. It also includes the studio for Moonlight Silks.
This unique space is also used for workshops, video screenings, and training seminars.
It is located 6 miles east of Bellingham surrounded by trees, creeks, and open meadows.
The public is welcome on an appointment basis.
Photography:
The Decisive Moment
Travel photos and videos--windows into the spirit of a place and it’s people. A moment of insight frozen in time, reflecting the way a place feels and the interactivity of people and the places they live in. Travelers arriving at their dream location to play and rest their busy minds. The locals who experience these places everyday where multiple cultures interface with each other creating a new synergy. Windows that reveal the truth and beauty of nature, including man.
The light and color and depth of the images come alive if they can be gathered together in just the right way. Those seeing the photo or video will feel the impact of the scene as if they were suddenly transported there and are standing on the beach or walking through a forest, where they can see, hear, smell, and for a moment take in the essence of a place. They can see the inner depths of people - through the eyes, a smile, a simple gesture. Photography is an opportunity for me to provide these windows, and I try to put myself in these places and hope I am at the right place at the right time, taking in the focal point of beauty in the landscape at any given moment.
Often there are several of these points, depending on my point of view and my ability to connect the camera and the event or subject at just the right moment - the split second when the light is right and I am ready to take the shot. I feel as though that moment is alive and drawing my attention to it. it is as if I am just an extension of the camera and it is the life within that window that is taking the picture - that is deciding when and where to be composed in such a way as to provide an insight into its nature. I only need to be ready to respond to the moment, technically and spiritually. Am I really separate from the life, the creative force, visible within the window? The Tao of Photography. Perhaps my insight is that at the moment when everything is lined up, at that decisive moment, I no longer exist.
David Eisenhower