Daniel MacDonald Photographer

07/02/2017

Today I'm in Pescadero photographing one of the sweetest, most beautiful, and emotionally deep weddings I've ever had the pleasure to be a part of... And now a guest is tending bar in an inflatable T-Rex suit!!!

06/18/2017

Congratulations to Stacy & John on their gorgeous wedding day in the foothills❣️

01/08/2017

Fascinating portrait project...

http://www.marklaita.net/projects/ce.html

11/23/2016

This is beautiful and amazing and heart wrenching... ❤️📸

11/14/2016

What a wonderful idea, and heartwarmingly rendered... This would be so fun to do with all the Mendocino Locals I photographed back in the day!

Photo © by Chris Porsz/Geoff Robinson Paramedic Chris Porsz spent hours walking around the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (Great Britain) in the late 1970s and 80s, taking candid shots of punks and policemen, siblings and sweethearts, traders and teenagers. More than three decades late

10/27/2016

Another gorgeous summer wedding in Mendocino...

09/22/2016

"There are photographers who still believe that a photograph does not exist until it is a print. There remains in their memory the experience of working in a darkroom and recalling the magic of seeing an image gradually appear on a piece of paper in a tray of liquid, all this bathed in a warm golden light.�If processed and stored properly this print can last for generations. It becomes archival; it becomes vintage. It becomes a treasure to be put in a fine box between soft acid-free tissues. It can be framed and hung in a favorite spot, to become an object of daily pleasure and comfort. It is a real object we can hold in our hands, not a negative or an image floating around in space and stored in cold machines.

Whether captured on film or captured digitally, this print, this object, reflects the craft and skill and pride of its maker. Its quality is a reflection of the skill and art of its making.

Let us sign it with our name as an expression of pride and accomplishment – whether we have made it ourselves or have entrusted its making to a skilled artisan. Let us be collectors and guardians of these beautiful artifacts.�
Let us celebrate the print."

- Constantine Manos

08/31/2016

“Photographers are victims of paradox, tracking the impermanent to make it permanent.”
- Ray Metzker

08/25/2016

Our recent styled wedding shoot at Dancing Pines in Tahoe has been published!

Second Shooter: Samantha Chami of Stereo Photo Album read more.

08/15/2016

“Many people, even some good photographers, talk of the “luck” of photography as if that were a disparagement. And it is true that luck is constantly at work. It is one of the cardinal creative forces in the universe, one which the photographer has unique equipment for collaborating with. And a photographer often shoots around a subject, especially one that is highly mobile and in continuous and swift development—which seems to me as much his natural business as it is for a poet who is really in the grip of his poem to alter and realter words in his line. It is true that most artists, though they know their own talent and its gifts as luck, work as well as they can against luck, and that in most good works of art, as in little else in creation, luck is either locked out or locked in and semidomesticated, or put to wholly constructive work; but it is peculiarly a part of the good photographer’s adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it. Most good photographs, especially the quick and lyrical kind, are battles between the artist and luck.”
- James Agee