“When I saw your work, I was absolutely stunned. I’ve lived in Big Sur all my life and never seen a sky so beautiful as what you captured in your image. You were at the right place at the right time with the right stuff.”
– Erin Lee Gafill, 2011, Award Winning Landscape Painter, Big Sur
“Your photographs are world class art in the tradition of Ansel Adams and the Westons.”
– Terrence Zito, 2008, Award Winning International Landscape Painter
“I just love your [Twilight Moonset]. Even the greatest, most accomplished painter could not capture what you achieved.“
-MT, Carmel Fine Art Expert, 2011
“We’ve seen thousands of Big Sur photos, but you’ve captured it.“
– Carmel Foundation photography critic 2007
“David’s photographs aren’t as bad as they look.“
(Just Kidding– I made this last one up ;-) derived from the ironically witty — “Wagner isn’t as bad as it sounds.” . . . Which is doubly ironic because Wagner’s “Die Valkyrie” is one of my favorite music pieces.)
Selected Awards:
“EyeLight” won a NewScientist International Photography Competition in London, England, January 2011
Center for Photographic Art Judges selected “Milky Way, Big Sur” for their 2012 Competition Exhibit.
“Endangered Condor” won a Jurors award from the Arts Council of Monterey County in 2010 and was displayed outside the Supervisor’s Chambers for a year from Fall 2010.
Arts Council Jurors of Monterey County selected two Photographs for 2012 Show: “Dramatic Flight” and “Mt Toro Snowstorm.”
“David Dilworth’s photographs of the coast capture its mood, its magic, and its mystery . . . for many locals, seeing Soberanes Point looming up against the sky is the first sign that we are on the way home. Check out David’s work . . . ”
– Nepenthe website-blog, Sept 2012
David these photographs are breathtaking and so inspiring…thank you for sharing them…you have such an appreciation of nature and all of creation…What a beautiful world we live in…and you bring this into focus with such clarity and content…lots of special images…how fortunate you are to have experienced these moments in Nature and in tune with the Universe!!!!!!
Thank you .
I am so glad you like them.
And I am most fortunate to to know you Rochelle.