Shutter Mike Photography

Although I have done a little bit of portrait photography in the past (for both humans and animals), it is not something I do very often.  But having 9 nieces and nephews someone is usually willing to act as a guinea pig for me so practice on.  My latest victims did pretty well and the location of this portrait shoot, the Mesa Art Center, performed very well too.  This is a fantastic location for my favorite architectural photography as well as for portrait photography.

I did some “standard” posed photographs with the kids.  But I prefer the more “candid” (although still slightly posed) portraits where they are kids being kids.  I think it is more real and represents the subject better.

Arizona Falls is one spot in Phoenix I keep coming back to for photography.  It is such a simple and often over looked dot on the Phoenix map for photography yet it has so much to offer a photographer.  The falls are a spot in the Phoenix canal system where the elevation changes, hence a waterfall.  But SRP, one of the electric power companies in Phoenix, has turned this otherwise mundane spot into a work of public art.  And it generates electricity.  So why go back and photograph the same thing over and over again?  Because it is never the same place twice.  Arizona Falls has two elements that make this structure constantly changing; light and water.  The flow of water is different throughout the year just as the light changes with the seasons and the time of day.  So you will always get something new even if you return again and again as I have.