Michael A Sanderson's photostream  

Photo Blog and Journal: www.masphotosonline.com/blog


OK - so if you clicked this tab, you must want to know a little something about me or my photography.

I am an emerging photographer with a wide range of photographic and artistic interests and motivations. My inspirations, like me, are eclectic and unpredictable.

I vaguely remember the very first camera I was given. I was young – I think in first grade in 1969. It was a hand-me-down Kodak Brownie and the first pictures I took with it were at a Bush Gardens theme park in Houston. While sturdily constructed, Bakelite doesn't hold up too well in the hands of a 6 year-old boy. As a young kid in elementary and middle school, the annual gift subscriptions from my Aunt to National Geographic also fanned an interest in learning and a curiosity about the world through the stories told by the images that came to me in the mail each month.

My next camera, as a teen in the late 70’s, was a Polaroid SX-70. I got it as a Christmas present that I begged for as the only present I wanted or needed. I remember it turned out to be a costly camera to take photos with for someone still on a tight allowance and after a while it lost its appeal. A decade passed and I didn’t take up photography again until 1989 when I started traveling for my work. I had an Olympus AZ-330 that I really loved and I took many rolls of film with that camera. I had a real job then and could afford the film and processing. I adopted digital in 2002 with a Minolta Dimage 7 and in 2009 I invested in a Canon digital SLR system. That’s when I rediscovered a really obsessive way to satisfy several passions at once.

Whether through photojournalism, documentary photography, travelogue, portraiture or still life - photography as an art and a physical science allows me to indulge in and express my many interests. You see, I work in a very logical, methodical, left brain environment and I really enjoy it for the most part. I love science, technology, gadgets, the theoretical and the abstract. I have a voracious appetite and curiosity for learning of all types. I love the challenge of mastering new concepts and disciplines. I love travel, art, music, social interaction and people watching as “sport”. I love controversy, heated debate, and activism. For me, photography is a dynamic synthesis of all the things I love. It provides a laboratory for learning and experimentation while at the same time a medium for me to exercise my right brain through creative expression - the ability to capture a moment, to tell a story, to teach, to entertain, and maybe affect a change.



All my images are copyright protected with all rights reserved and no commercial or private use is permitted without permission. If you would like to use an image, first please email me at michaelasanderson@gmail.com. I am certain we can work something out.

Thanks for stopping by. -Mike



Member of:

Houston Center for Photography
Houston Photographic Society
Houston Photographic Study Group