If you find an interest in my photos, please visit www.callihanimages.com

My name is Devin Callihan. I live in Leeper, a small town in Northwestern Pennsylvania. I am a hobbyist photographer who wants to share my images, and some of the stories behind them with anyone who might find interest in them.

I was born and raised in Northwestern PA, and as such, I have a natural love of the outdoors. I enjoy many outdoor activities like hiking, geocaching, canoeing, hunting… the whole nine yards.

I have always had a casual love of photography for as long as I can remember. As a young child, I can remember waiting for my father to get his copy of Deer and Deer Hunting in the mail so that I could read “Rue’s Views”, a monthly article in the magazine featuring ramblings and photography by Leonard L. Rue. Rue has gone on since then to become the most published wildlife photographer in North America, so I guess I knew talent when I saw it way back then. LOL See his website at www.ruewildlifephotos.com. This lead to me having a little 110 camera that I would aimlessly shoot with on family outings. Over the years since, I have always been the person who gives photos a second look of appreciation, every time wondering if I would be able to take a photo as good as the one I was looking at. I’ve always had a point and shoot camera and even upgraded to a Canon EOS Rebel T3 in 2011. Even after that purchase, I still never quite made the “jump” to really “learn” how to use the camera to consciously compose an image. I was still very much a snapshot style photographer although I had an intense appreciation of images that I would see that I considered works of art.

That changed in December of 2012. I made the decision that 2013 would be the year that I would “swear off of automatic” for life. As a kickoff to begin my lifelong photographic journey, I decided to undertake a 365 Day Photo Project to encompass every day in 2013. If you have never heard of a 365 Day Photo Project, it is pretty self explanatory. You take a photo everyday for a year. I decided to share this project on my personal Facebook page as a way to gauge whether or not I was improving and “lucking into” composing photos that people would enjoy seeing. In summation, let me tell you, taking a photo every day for a year takes a lot of dedication. But I could not have done a better project to dramatically decrease the learning curve. If you have an interest in learning your camera, DO A 365 PROJECT.

That project ended with New Years Eve of 2013. I was proud of what I had accomplished. I had only produced about a dozen of what I would consider good photos, but that is not what the project was about. It was to introduce me to the tools used in the art of photography.

I spent January and February of 2014, very boring cold months in Northwestern PA, feeling like something was missing. I also lost my Grandfather in January, which added to this feeling. I remembered how much Grandpa, and many of my friends on Facebook liked seeing my photos every day. I missed learning about my camera… EVERY DAY. I decided to undertake another Daily Photo Project. This time, I based it around Daylight Savings Time. The hardest months to get a photograph during my original 365 in 2013 were January, February, November and December. By the time work was done and I got home, I was stuck inside taking photos of uninspirational subjects. Not much fun. To me, using the longest days of the year was perfect.

As I write this, I am preparing to take my last photo of this years photo project. I will post some of those photos and others that I have taken here. There are a few good images, a few spectacular images, and of course there are some really lame ones. Most “artists” will not show you the lame ones. I’m not an “artist”, I’m a “wanna-be” so I’m cool with showing my junk. The truth of photography that I have discovered is that you have to take thousands of bad images before you consistently take spectacular ones.

I am very comfortable sharing that bumpy journey with the world. In my opinion, it is the essence of the art of photography. With any luck, in ten years or so, I’ll show you only spectacular images, but probably not. :)

I hope that you enjoy my site. If you do, please contact me and let me know. After 2014’s Daily Photo Project, I do not yet know what the next phase of my photographic journey will be, but it surely isn’t over. Pieces of that journey will end up here.