About Me

About Michael

Born in Portsmouth, Michaels love of the outdoors grew from many family holidays spent exploring and walking the south coast path from Dorset to Devon. A formative trip hiking in the mountains of Snowdonia at the age of 12 inspired a love for this more rugged landscape, and a keen interest in hiking began.

Michaels early creative interests began with Music. It wasn’t until his early 20’s and the introduction of digital cameras that he combined a love for walking the landscape with his creative ability. Since then, Michael has continued to progress his photography over the course of the last 15 years. Completely self taught, Michael is dedicated to capturing the British Landscape and inspiring people with his photography.

Now based in Woking, Surrey with his Wife and two Sons, Michael spends most of his free time out with his camera in the Surrey Hills, with regular trips across the south coast and the mountains of Snowdonia.

My Photography

I have always been inspired by the outdoors, and through my photography I aim to capture those moments of inspiration that nature provides me. I hope my love of the outdoors comes through my images and inspires others to get outside and enjoy our wonderful landscape.

Through my photography I aim to explore the feeling and connection I have with the landscape at a single point in time; to represent it in the way it made me feel at that single moment when I pressed the shutter of my camera. My aim is that my work moves beyond a technical record of a physical location, its an attempt at capturing the mood and spirit of our landscape in artistic form.

I spend most of my time planning & then exploring locations, understanding the best light, waiting for the right conditions to bring my image alive. Careful consideration is given to composition gradually refining it before selecting filters to bring out the best in camera image possible.

Once happy with the in-camera image, I set about refining it, perfecting colour balance, contrast and tone to best represent my interpretation of a scene - this is about how I see a scene, not how the camera sees it. After all, a camera on its own cannot record how I felt.

The final Step is printing. I print my images on high quality fine art paper. Each paper selected for a specific image to enhance its qualities and “feel”.

As a photographer, I continually aim to improve and develop my art, continuing to interpret and present the Landscape in the best way I can.

Creative Tools

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Camera's & Lenses:

  • Nikon Z9 Full Frame Mirrorless Camera

  • Nikon Z7 ii Full Frame Mirrorless Camera

  • Nikon Z 14-24mm F2.8 S

  • Nikon Z 24-70 F4 S

  • Nikon Z 24-70 f2.8 S

  • Nikon Z 70-200 F2.8 VR S

  • Nikon AF-S 500mm F5.6E PF

  • DJI Mavic 2 Pro Drone

  • Accessories:

  • Manfrotto 055 CXPro 3 Tripod

  • Acratech GXP Ball Head

  • Lee 100mm Filter System

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Processing & Printing:

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic

  • Adobe Photoshop CC

Printing:

  • Epson Surecolour P800 A2 Printer

Fine Art Paper:

  • Canson Baryta Infinity Photographique 310gsm

  • Hahnemuhle Pearl Photo Rag 320gsm

  • Canson Platine Fibre Rag 310gsm

  • Epson Coldpress Natural 340gsm