About
Mick has been photographing since in his teens, using a camera his
dad had given him.
Not until recently, however, he started displaying his art publically.
Local galleries such as the Chimera Gallery and Gallery One, both
Nashua, NH, featured his art.
Mostly a landscape photographer, Mick has a keen eye for special scenes that have a touch all their own. See a selection in the Photo Gallery here.
Mick is an educated chemist that has worked as a project manager for software projects, especially for the use in medical devices.
Mick is a member of the Nashua Area Artist's Association and advising the NAAA's board. Recently he founded Clocktower Fine Art Rental, a company that rents out original artwork into professional settings such as nursing homes or medical practices.
Artist's Statement:
When is a Photograph a piece of Art?
The big advantage painters have over photographers is that usually they can speak at length about the process it took, the journey sometimes, to bring a piece of art into existence. And photography for the longest time had its equivalent in the elaborate secrets of producing large paper prints: exposure techniques for the enlargements, secret elixirs and magic potions for chemical trickery. But with the advent of digital photography and printing what was left of the processing in the lab has vanished into obscurity. Digital technology has also eliminated images that are out of focus or have bad exposure. Making color photos these days, it will seem, is something anyone can do.
But what makes a good photograph a piece of art?
The one thing I can say about my art is this: It is not as easy as it looks. For any landscapes and for practically all nature scenes there remain the elements of time and space that the artist has to adapt to. I say adapt to, because there is a fairly limited ability to actively change either. You constantly ask yourself: For that scene I see in my head, what is the best time of the day to actually take the picture? How would the light be at 5 AM? Can I possibly get to that spot over there to, maybe, get a better view? Is it better to return to this spot in fall?
My favorite story about this challenge happened during a visit to
Europe's largest 
waterfall, which constantly produces an enormous
curtain of fog and droplets. We arrived early in the day and after a
short while of wandering up and down the edges of the gorge below the
fall, I was pretty sure I'd be seeing a rainbow across the whole scene -
if I just could position myself between that curtain of droplets and the
sun.
But at the time I couldn't get to such a spot for it would have been in
the middle of that spectacular gorge. Even if there would have been a
bridge over that canyon full of violent water, the scene viewable from
there would have been quite different.
So we waited for a few hours. Would the sun still shine when we needed
it? Some clouds began to form late that morning. Then, around noon that
day the sun had moved enough to allow me to stand right at the edge of
the gorge and ... wait for the clouds to let the sunlight peak through for
a moment.
And yes, for sometimes only a few seconds there was indeed the gorgeous
arch of a beautiful and delicate rainbow spanning the falls. I kneeled
down near the parking lot, a half mile away from the thundering cascades
waiting for the sunlight to last long enough to take the picture. And I
remember that the visitors rushing by next to me weren't noticing
anything much at all, so busy to get closer to the action.
So, I guess what joins the photographers with the painters is that
ability to see things in time and space that aren't quite there yet. And
where the painters start painting what is only in their heads, the
photographers have the duty to show up at the right time and in the
right place for that eye blink in time to take that picture.
But the images I enjoy the most are the ones where I remember walking by
that lake, river or mountain range, or just hiking over the crest of
that average hill - only to find waiting a scene of perfect beauty
readily prepared for me to take in. At such occasions I often feel The
Creator winking at me, right then.