Hi, I’m Mike.
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I find moments of Zen in cooking dinner for friends and family while sipping on a beer and listening to Neil Young. I value the craftsmanship of old, hand-made things like my collection of vintage wool shirts and my house built in 1836. I grew up listening to hardcore punk and might still blast Minor Threat on my way home from work on occasion. I love my cats, stormy weather, and my wife, Sarah.
Through all the noise of the world -the screens, the traffic, the chatter of life- I also strive to find quiet moments. Ever since I was a kid growing up in the Adirondacks, I would retreat to the woods after a crazy school day, full of stimulation, to listen to the wind in the trees. I still revisit my childhood home to find the tranquility, meditative moments, and true quiet that you can not find anywhere else. I was also an art kid growing up and after graduating high school, my parents gifted me my first real camera. I took that with me on backpacking trips with friends and punk shows in my college years. I soon realized that I used photography to help me slow things down, be present, look at the world around me, and communicate things that I didn't have the words for. Naturally, I discovered the art of landscape photography and eventually, as most wedding photographers do, friends began to ask me to shoot their weddings. I found that I love this work. It allows me to meet new people, capture tender, organic moments, and gift souvenirs of one of the most important days of someone’s life.
I hope we get the chance to work together. If you find value in creative images and have a love of nature, then let’s connect!