Hi, I'm Mike, and I hate bios written in the 3rd person.  Mike hates bios written in the 3rd person.

I started in fine art as a kid.  My mom is a ceramicist and I have many artists in my family, so I was always making things - furniture, paintings, forts, photos, home movies.  Art led me to the film business with a focus on cinematography, and I was an apprentice for 3 years to Russell Carpenter, the Academy Award winning Cinematographer of Titanic, among others.  I worked for a number of years in cinema before my hobby, still photography, became work.

I've since worked on a wide range of projects, with a wider range of clients.  I've done 9 consecutive seasons of America's Next Top Model as a guest photographer, and sometimes judge on the judging panel.

I love travel and adventure, and have floated in the dead sea, run with the bulls, flown on the vomit comet, and camped in the desert with bedouins.

I also love Italian food, origami, integrity

I hate sticky fingers, crumbs on my elbows, mediocrity, salad and pasta touching on the plate