Author name: Mike Dooley

Wide-angle is my default — but this sunflower field at sunset needed a different approach entirely. Here’s the story behind the image.

Everyone asks what settings I used. Here’s the better question — and the story of a 4 a.m. walk on Block Island that taught me to ask it.

A quiet year behind the camera led to this sunrise at Rocky Point — the photograph that reminded me why I started. Here’s the story and the print.

An ice cream stop turned into one of my favorite recurring photographs — two trees I’ve shot for years, and still love. Here’s the story behind the image.

A summer storm nearly ended this shoot at a Connecticut sunflower farm — until the sky cracked open for one brief, golden moment. Here’s the story and the print.