Dooley Turns it up to 11 with Shutterbug Magazine!

Mike Dooley Photography is featured in the Shutterbug Magazine

I would like to send out a huge thank you to the good folks over at Shutterbug Magazine! In the March 2014 issue, Joe Farace featured my photography in the Web Profiles section of the magazine, and the kind words that he had to say were amazing! I am tremendously flattered by what he had to say!

My photography has been an amazing journey, full of exploration and excitement! The adventure started on Friday May 16, 2008 when my wife gave me a DSLr for our wedding anniversary. She wanted me to have something fun to do for myself, that wasn’t related to work or the family. We went out the next day and spent the entire day exploring Rhode Island and taking photographs along the way. And boy were those photographs awful! I mean terrible, some of the worst I have ever seen! But it was a great day, and the first of what would be come our regular weekend adventures! Each day I have struggled to get better, and to improve my work. Hard to imagine that the latest stop on my journey would have my work featured like this!

I have come a long way in my journey, and I still have a long way to go. I thank all of you for your continued support and encouragement. Every “Like” on Facebook, every +1 on Google, and every comment have helped me to learn and grow, as both a person and an artist. I thank you!

The Article

As at the time of this post the article was only in the print edition of the magazine and had not yet made it onto the Shutterbug Magazine website, I have added the text from the article here for you to read:

Mike Dooley is a Rhode Island-based photographer whose cleanly designed website uses a blog-like format to display his images in a straightforward manner, allowing you to appreciate the subtlety and complexity of a palette covering many genres. Dooley’s landscape photographs eschew the dramatic to produce graceful images such as “Trees on the Hill” but he turns it up to 11 with photographs like “Sunflowers Under Stormy Sky” that employ the Dooley touch, making you want to stop and count each of the hundreds (thousands!) of sunflowers so you can immerse yourself in the scene for as long as possible. His night photography focuses mainly on industrial subjects, yet images such as “Milky Way on Cape Cod” include a tiny building in the background that adds a minuscule detail, bringing the entire image full circle.

In Places & Things, Dooley takes us on a journey from the beautifully realized detail of the “USS Lionfish Torpedo Room” to the juxtaposition of HDR and photojournalism in “Iggy’s Doughboys and Chowder house.” Dooley is clearly comfortable photographing people, as can be seen in a gallery that features everything from traditional headshots and pictures of babies to a series of classically elegant portraits of ballerinas that knocked my socks off. Before leaving the site, stop and peruse Mike Dooley’s blog, which features images of New England along with text illuminating his thought process when making these amazing images.

Wow! Did I say I was flattered already? My favorite part is when he states “he turns it up to 11 with photographs like ‘Sunflowers Under Stormy Sky’ “. How awesome is that?