Seeing The Reflections: a book of portraits

by David C. Russell

This book represents over forty years of taking portraits of people, David Russell's real passion. It reflects his real interest trying to capture different, interesting, personal and intimate portraits. Hunting for that fleeting bonding moment between photographer, camera and subject that reveals a quick glimpse of a real person. That's what he works so hard to capture. This book has reflections of family, friends, and former strangers. So 40 plus years later it seemed time to finally do the portrait book. The old tools had become antiques. Now we have digital cameras, computer post processing software and printers. David has spent many never-ending hours learning. However,Light, Composition, and Capturing a subject remains the exact same. Hope you find at least some of it interesting.

54 pages, Paperback

Published January 30, 2020

About the author

David C Russell was born in the rural town of Sandusky, MI on February 25, 1952. Growing up in lower Michigan, David had two parents and four brothers and sisters who from oldest to youngest are 19 years apart in age. In adulthood, David worked as a music therapist in the early 1980s after graduating from college at MI State University in 1979. It took David 8 years and 3 colleges to achieve this feat! From 1984 to January 1996, David lived in the Washington D.C. area, played piano as entertainer at Mr. Smiths in Georgetown from October 1984 to June 1993. He also worked as a clerk typist in a Federal Agency. Then, meeting his wife, David had more reason to put the bureaucratic life of Washington behind him, and returned to Michigan on Superbowl Sunday 1996. David and his wife have been married 25+ years.

- Since 2013, David has authored one novel, has appeared in random anthologies including "New Authors Journal" (Amazon) occasionally since 2019. Stories:
Sample stories free to read:
https://www.spillwords.com/author.dav...

Currently, David, age young at heart, semi-retired, plays piano most weekends for patrons,s The Voyageur Restaurant, St. Clair, Michigan. He also has written content articles as a freelancer since 2015.
His blog, over 12-years, is titled, "grafted in and on the journey" blogspot.com. By and large, spiritual and encouraging in nature.

Musically, classical, mellow rock, and acoustic are his three favorite types.
David enjoys keeping up with current events, major sports, walks, swimming, and avid reader.
David has the following contributions to book shelves across the globe:

-Growing Faith: Stories for Today's Youth, by Cheryl Rogers, 2013
-Dangerous Days Book 4, Heather Schuldt, 2014
- Waiting For Messiah, Anthology, David C. Russell, Sept. 2017
- Homecoming: A Memoir, David C. Russell, Dec. 2018
-Human Being Human Doing, David C. Russell (short story collection) Spring 2023.
All available at Amazon and major book sellers online!
One's Purpose: Moving forward - not standing still or stagnating.
Hope: Make new acquaintances and friends that are about bettering themselves and our world. If that is you, I hope we connect here or in life.
Incidentally, thanks for reading and noticing me!

David C Russell