Michael made the cut on Rob Haggart’s A Photo Editor’s Slideshow of photographers he likes and would hire (and has). The image that made the cut (above) appears near the end of the show. Rob initially asked for submissions and culled them to help photo editors find talented photographers to work with. A faster thnumbnail...
This past week I heard from ASMP (American Society of media Photographers) National that two versions of the Orphan Works bill has been introduced – one in the House and one in the Senate. Photographers and artists alike have been fighting off this bill for a few years now. And it seems like the lead...
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...
The Winter 2008 issue of the Michael Clark Photography newsletter is now available for download from my website. If you’d like to sign on for the Newsletter just drop me an email and I’ll add you to the mailing list. This new issue of the newsletter is really late in coming. I apologize for that....
I spent most of February and a wee bit of March in Chilean Patagonia. I was flown down to cover the Patagonia Expedition Race which started in Punta Arenas and went south from there – way south. The race was 600+ kilometers long and like a triathlon on steroids the teams of four (with at...
This is another little trick I learned while down in Patagonia last month covering the Patagonia Expedition Race. It rained a lot which is not that unusual – though for a desert dweller like myself that much rain and especially sideways rain is an interesting phenomenon. And at times it was pretty comical trying to...
A few years ago I went to a mid-week lecture given by Joe McNally and a few other photographers who were teaching at the Santa Fe Workshops here in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ever since I started working as a photographer, I had ogled quite a few of Joe’s images in National Geographic, Sports Illustrated...
