Green Bay Wisconsin Commercial and Editorial Photographer

A Happy Dog Enjoying One Of The Last Days Of Winter – Hopefully One Of The Last.

Friday, April 12, 2013

It’s a snowy non mid April weather type of day here in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I found a little visual distraction from my day of editing, my dog Chica enjoying a treat in the front yard after coming back from getting a hair cut.

Thanks for looking!

Mike

Showing Bobby Around Door County • Door County Wisconsin Lighthouse Photography

Friday, March 29, 2013

With winter finally coming to an end here in Wisconsin, after a long hard season with lots of snow, I took advantage of one of our first seasonably warm days with plenty of sunshine to give my intern a little landscape photography experience in Door County, Wisconsin. My intern Jayavarapu “Bobby” Prabhakar is from Hyderabad, India and is studying photography at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay. It’s always fun to take a fresh set of eyes up to Door County to experience the beauty of the area and having that fresh set of eyes be a photographers makes it even more enjoyable.

Our first stop was The Sturgeon Bay headlight lighthouse on Lake Michigan at the end of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal. We photographed at this location at both sunrise and sunset and then revisited it in mid afternoon light. It was interesting and I think a good learning experience for Bobby to see how the light changed on our subject throughout the day from the hour before sunrise to minutes after the sun had set.

We also visited and photographed at the Cana Island lighthouse, Cave Point, Whitefish Bay Sand Dunes, Peninsula State Park (we even climbed the tower to get the shot of an iced in Horseshoe Island), the road to the ferry dock at the tip of the Door County Peninsula in North Port and then back down to Sturgeon Bay. Along the way I shot a couple photos of Bobby to document his day, those shots are at the end of the blog.

So, here are a few of my favorite photos from our late winter day of photography in Door County, Wisconsin.

Thanks for looking!

Mike

Photos From The Slush Cup at Indianhead Mountain.

Monday, March 25, 2013

This past weekend I took time out from skiing with my wife Judy and friends to shoot a few photos of the slush cup at Indiandhead Mountain near Wakefield, Michigan in the Upper Penninsula just across the Wisconsin border. With the temps in the upper twenties a large handful of brave souls took a crack at trying to ski and snowboard across a small pond of water created for the days event. A great way for not just the skiers, but also the spectators to enjoy one of the last weekends of the ski season. Here are a few of my favorite photos from the event!

Thanks for looking!

Mike

Sixteen Basketball Games in Four Days. Capturing Emotion, The Highs and Lows. Green Bay Sports Photographer.

Monday, March 18, 2013

Back in my early newspaper days in the late 80s and 90s I shot more then my share of high school and college basketball games, but I rarely saw the end of the game. Since I worked for morning newspapers my deadline didn’t allow for me to stay much past the first half so I could dart back to the paper and process the film and make a few black and white prints while the sports editor banged on the darkroom door with encouragement to hurry up. When you only get to shoot the first half of a basketball game you really don’t get to document the emotion of the games. Last week I had the opportunity to photography 16 basketball games in four days. Fifteen of those games took place over three days in the WIAA Wisconsin High School Girls Basketball Championship which took place in Green Bay for the first time. The basketball photography stretch finished with the Horizon League Championship on the campus of Wisconsin Green Bay with the Green Bay Phoenix beating Loyola for an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament.

I love to document emotions in life whether they are high or lows. Basketball championships are defiantly full of highs and lows and I’m proud of how I was able to document those emotions last week. My favorite photos would be the top two in the blog. The high of the Notre Dame Academy Tritons running towards their bunch after winning the D2 championship and the low of the Superior Titans after loosing in the D1 semifinals.

I mentioned it on this blog many times in the past and it holds true here for me to be a happy photographer I like to have a variety of things to shoot and the last week was great for that variety. I think the skills you sharpen as a sports photographer shooting basketball like this does apply to things like casino photography, transportation photography or healthcare photography. You defiantly sharpen your editing skills and you sharpen your skills on quickly working out a composition and timing.

Here are my favorite photos from last week.

Thanks for taking a look!

Mike

Midwest Gaming Photographer • Details and Food at Cypress Bayou

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Having a variety of creative photo shoots to work on is what makes me happy as a photographer. Last week was one of those happy weeks; I was able to be a food photographer, a casino photographer, a gaming photographer and a sports photographer.

About a month ago, one of my favorite clients, Gaga Marketing, contacted me to shoot a variety of images at a casino deep in the bayou of Louisiana to be used for a TV commercial and a variety of collateral materials. I was a little bummed when I found out that we wouldn’t be shooting with models, but excited when they told me they wanted to cut me loose to be as creative as I could with detail shots around the casino and various food shots in their three restaurants.

The best part about shooting food, as my assistant would say, is you usually get to eat the food. The sushi and the guacamole alone made the trip down worth it.

Here are some of my favorite photos from the shoot.

Thanks for looking!

Mike

P.S. The sports photography that finished out the week was a D1 college basketball game to document the Green Bay women’s basketball team capture their 15th consecutive league title, the longest active streak in D1 women’s’ basketball.