Sometimes I get the urge to drive down the beach. I can legally do so in designated areas in the outer banks. Mostly I think beaches are for walking but I can’t deny the pleasure of cruising 4wd the waterline at sunset and watching the Pelicans air surfing. #obx
I continue my fiction essay BeachGames. To be a book. Maybe. Someday. I almost published it last spring but something was wrong. I’m pleased I waited. So now I’ve ventured out of Rio for surely beach games are everywhere. So I will return to Cuba soon to continue. Then Thailand . Then Cartagena . Always …
Hiking around Jockeys Ridge on the outer banks is mostly a barefoot pleasure. Except in late summer out come the stickers I’ve never known the official name my whole ouch pull out the sticker burr life. Still sunset from this old shifting dune is the place to be. Even on the coldest day of winter …
I publish Instagrams from a wide variety of locations worldwide. Yet if you roll through my feed you will see a high percentage of photos from either my rooftop in Brooklyn or my front porch in the outer banks. Basically I’m a homebody. I rarely “go out”. 90% of my socializing happens at home. My …
Hurricane Joaquin rolls towards New York with winds of 130 mph and rated as a Cat 3. Great. My book publishing class starts tomorrow so it’s gonna turn into a hurricane party I can tell. Teju Cole, Rob Clark and Michael Christopher Brown will be showing my students work along with BurnBooks producer Diego Orlando. …
Valparaiso, Chile. From my book Divided Soul (Phaidon). This is a one shot only candid photo. Yet I had spent a couple of days with this one family so after a bit I pretty much blended in. I was having my coffee on the center patio and this young girl was about to leave for …
The couple on the left had been married 60 years when they randomly met the couple on the right who had been married for about 60 seconds. Wedding photographers thrive here in the outer banks and I was a renegade shooting a wedding to which I had not been invited. So I made friends with …
Students taking my book publishing workshop starting next week will be on this rooftop soonest. My Brooklyn space always makes the near perfect workshop location. Lots of work gets done, plenty of outside guest presenters, and we have a lot of fun doing it#davidalanharveyworkshops
Katie makes the bridesmaid catch!! Or did she? Some witnesses say she stole the corsage from another bridesmaid who actually caught it. I was shooting rapid burst on the iPhone and have photo proof of what actually happened. Yet this is the only one in the sequence I will publish. One way or another Katie …
