M I C A H

My motto is “Where You Become The Canvas”.  I feel it is a great privilege and blessing to take part in some of the most important moments in a person’s life.  I’m not just pressing a button.  I am able to capture some of the most precious moments and with the masterful touch of an oil painter’s hand, everything that I create is a work of art. Over the years of my life I have always been considered to be an expert when it came to art.  During my childhood is when my love of art and anything artistic began.  I set out to experiment and perfect my skills with any sort of drawing materials I could get my hands on.  I won a pastel art contest two years in a row as well as a chalk drawing contest.  At the age of nine I entered the world of oil miniature painting.  My teacher said that I had a natural talent that she could not teach to her students and I was truly gifted.  I spent two years training with her to see things and paint them in miniature, capturing every detail of life in my paint brush but from a tiny perspective.  For awhile I dreamed I would become as good as Da Vinci or perhaps Michelangelo. 

Six years ago I traded my paint brush for a camera and computer.  Looking through the lens I could see everything as if creating a painting and thus began a new passion in my life.  Being a musician myself, I took this new love of the photograph and began a quest into the most difficult of all photography genres, lowlight concert photography. Being a hopeless romantic once I photographed my first couple everything changed. I found that my skills in journalism blended with fine art portraiture and I was able to catch fleeting moments of emotion and intimacy between two people in love. It was at this moment that I knew I wanted to spend my life capturing that feeling through my art and sharing it with others. My passion in my own life for marriage and family has now turned into a career creating lasting images with my style and artistic vision. I can't even begin to express how blessed I am to share in such intimate moments with my clients. I approach everyone as a close friend or family member. When you hire me you are not just entering a business contract you are gaining a friend. I feel this relatinship creates the comfort to allow me to capture the unique one of a kind images that other photographers cannot duplicate. I use the Canon 1D Mark III, L-series lenses,  the Canon GL2 Professional Video Camera with L-lense, Adobe CS4 software, Macintosh Computers, and Final Cut Pro Studio for cinematic video production. I am an active professional member of the PPA, Professional Photographers of America the the WPPI, Wedding & Portrait Photographers International. The true definition of my style is a Portrait Journalist, but I consider my self a cutting edge, cinematic photo artist.  Let me create art from your life.