Shutter Mike Photography

Today is the 2 year Anniversary of Mike Small Photography, my real estate photography business in Phoenix, AZ.  I’m very lucky to have the opportunity to photography for a living.  Over the past two years I have served 281 clients, photographed over 650 homes and buildings, taken 27,827 photos (give or take) and driven over 30,000 miles in and around Phoenix.

I get to see a lot of great homes in my day to day work.  But there are always some that stand out to me and really become my favorites.  So as part of my 2nd anniversary I decided to pick out my top 10 favorite homes I have photographed. They are not presented in any particular order.

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Enter for a chance to win “my “El Presidio” photograph on an 18″ x 24″ canvas.  All you have to do is go HERE, become a fan of Mike Small Photography on Facebook if you are not already and fill out a very short entry form.  Contest is open to entries until February 28, 2013.  Good Luck and thank you everyone for following my photography!  (Be sure to read the “terms and conditions” of the contest on the entry page.)

It has been a while since I highlighted one of the artists on Photography Served. But I was going through the site the other day (procrastinating) and I came across the photography of John Valls, a commercial food photographer in Portland, OR who photographs food “…from the ground up.”  John’s featured set on Photography Served is A Visit to a Tobacco Farm in Cuba.  Aside from the spectacular photographs I deemed this set of photographs share-worthy because I the subject.  Cuba has been on my list of must-go-to destinations for a while now.  Part of that is the “forbidden” aspect, part is my perception of it as being frozen in time and the photographic possibilities that presents.  But I will get there one day, hopefully before the rest of the world beats me to it and changes it forever.

John Valls’ work in Cuba focused on a tobacco farm and was shot over the course of six years to reveal “…the slow rhythms and quiet pleasures of daily life on Fidel’s family tobacco farm.”  (I’m not sure if that is the Fidel.)

I started Shutter Mike back in 2009 as an extension of my love of photography and a way to get my photography out there in a way beyond just Flickr and Facebook.  Over 2 years later I am 1000 posts into it.  This blog has opened some new doors and presented opportunities in photography.  But beyond that it has helped me develop my photography skills and style.  And it has put me on the verge of the next big step for me with my photography.  So it has been a great 2+ year journey and I still love managing this blog and creating the material in its posts.

Thanks to all my readers/viewers, I appreciate you taking the time to check out my work and all the comments over the years.  Now if I can just figure out how to grow my readership to crazy numbers!