More About Michael

I was born in Chicago and raised in Southern California, and I have lived in Washington for over 35 years. I am a photographer and digital artist drawn to wherever wind and fate may lead. 

I’m also drawn to color and texture, which are equally powerful forces in my work. Together, they evoke a sense of time, place, and emotion. I feel a constant pull toward them—an almost instinctive need to keep them close, like familiar companions that guide my creative voice. 

Beyond the act of capturing an image, I find my truest sense of flow in the process of transformation. Manipulating images through layers of texture, tonal variation, filters, and shifts in saturation and vibrance is where my work fully comes alive. 

Now based in Washington State, I create images that exist at the intersection of photography and digital art. Each piece begins with the camera but evolves through digital processes, allowing reality, imagination, and atmosphere to coexist within a single frame. 

My work reflects both a reverence for the natural world and a fascination with the quiet, dystopian beauty found in concrete, metal, rust, and the passage of time. I am guided by five essential elements: color, texture, space, place, and time. 

In concert, they shape how I photograph, how I create, and ultimately, how I see.