Last month’s July 2009 issue of Outdoor Photographer featured an article entitled “Ask the Pros” where readers submitted questions and a bevy of pro photographers answered them. Among the pro photographers included in the article were Art Wolfe, Moose Peterson, Tom Till, George Lepp, Glenn Randall…and myself. I am honored to be included among such...
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Last fall, I got a call from Men’s Fitness magazine to shoot the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department helicopter search and rescue squad known as Henry 1. I have been holding these photos under my hat for months and now that the article is out I thought I’d put up an extended web gallery of images...
This article is an excerpt from my Fall 2008 Newsletter. The idea for this article is a direct result of reading an article written by Doug Menuez entitled On Chaos, Fear, Survival and Luck: Longevity is the Answer which was published on the Editorial Photographers’ website (www.editorialphoto.com). In the article Doug discusses the dilemma of...
Michael got the cover of the April 2008 issue of Sierra Magazine recently. The image (above) is a self portrait shot while mountain biking on the Red Dot trail near White Rock, New Mexico. The camera was mounted on the seat post with a special clamp that held the camera steady as I rode the...
It has been a while since I last posted. I have found myself reading afew very interesting blogs related to the photo industry of late – thatis when I am actually here in the office. Hence, I thought I would share with you some links to my favorite blogs. Here goes…. A Photo EditorA Photo...
Yesterday, while shooting images at the 2007 Albuquerque Ballooon Fiesta I was looking for a shot of people standing outside of a balloon while I was standing inside the balloon as it was being inflated. I had no control of anything as I was shooting in a photojournalistic style and I had nothing really set...
One of the best articles I ever read on making it as a professional photographer was written by David Lyman, the founder and director of the Maine Photographic Workshops and published on digitaljournalist.org. You can check it out at: http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0410/lyman.html I highly recommend this article to both seasoned and emerging photographers as an incredible resource...
