David H. Lyman

David H Lyman is an author, writer and award-winning photojournalist, based in Canden, Maine. A boat owner, David is sailor and offshore delivery skipper who covers the New England Coast and the Eastern Caribbean for sailing and boating magazines; a regular contributor to Cruising World, SAIL, Ocean Navigator and Caribbean Compass magazines. David began his writing and photography career while a Navy Photojournalist (JO3) attached to a Seabee construction battalion stationed in Vietnam in 1967. Fifty years later, David wrote a memoir about those years in the 250 page book Seabee 72 in Chub Lai, published by McFarland Publishing in 2019. Upon returning from Vietnam David’s career included PR at a Vermont ski resort, editing a series of weekly newspaper, editor and feature writer for ski magazines. In 1973, looking to grow his career, he launched a summer school in Rockport, Maine for other writers and photographers. “It wasn’t because I had anything to teach,” he writes. “It was precisely because I knew I had a lot to learn. And what better was to learn than from the best. I got to invite the masters in photography, filmmaking, journalism, writing to spend a week in Rockport with me, leading a Master Class.”

For 35 years, David was the driving forces behind The Maine Photographic Workshops, turning his summer school into an international conservatory for the worlds image-makers and storytellers. In 2007, he turned his schools over to Maine Media and took his family sailing to the Caribbean.  Today, David lives in Camden where he is writing and photographing stories of adventure for sailing and  life-style magazines and working on a series of memoirs.

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