Adventure Sports Photographer Michael Clark specializes in outdoor adventure sports photography, active lifestyle, travel and landscape photography. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Michael Clark produces intense, raw images of athletes pushing their sports to the limit in remote locations around the world. He uses unique angles, bold colors, strong graphics and dramatic lighting to capture fleeting moments of passion, gusto, flair and bravado in the outdoors. Balancing extreme action with subtle details, striking portraits and wild landscapes, he creates images for editorial, advertising and corporate clients worldwide. His work can be found in leading editorial publications and advertising and annual reports for clients around the globe.

Michael Clark is an award winning adventure sports photographer and is highly sought after for his unique talents. He has risked life and limb on a variety of assignments to bring back stunning images of rock climbers, mountaineers, kayakers, and mountain bikers pushing their sports to the limit in remote locations around the world. His outdoor specialties include rock climbing, mountaineering, mountain biking, kayaking, hiking, trekking and backpacking. Michael works with elite athletes in remote locations around the world to produce images of extreme sports that few other photographers can capture.

As a former physicist Michael has worked on both sides of the technical revolution – helping refine the technology and using it for his current profession. Michael has worked as a professional photographer since 1996 and added digital photography to his repertoire in 2003. While Michael still shoots some film, mostly medium format, the lion’s share of his images are now produced with high-resolution digital cameras. He is an expert in the field of digital imaging and can provide clients with high quality and high resolution images even on tight deadlines. Depending on the project he works alone or with a crew of reliable assistants and digital retouchers so that the clients needs are met. He has been featured in Outdoor Photographer (September 2001) and Nikon World Magazine (Summer 2006) for his work with extreme sports.

Michael also teaches both private and group photography workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico and abroad. He has become known as the go to person for his extensive knowledge of Adobe Lightroom and he has written a 106 page eBook entitled Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographer's Workflow which presents his entire digital workflow from start to finish. He also writes a weekly blog for O'Reilly Digital Media's Inside Lightroom website.

Michael also produces a quarterly newsletter which includes editorials, news, equipment reviews, digital tips and galleries of his recent work. If you would like to sign up for the newsletter please email him at mjcphoto@comcast.net.

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