
AWARDS
2012 - 1st Place, Photography; Rancho Mirage Art Affaire
2012 - 3rd Place, Photography; Beverly Hills Art Show
2012 - 1st Place, Photography; Indian Wells Arts Festival
2009 - Honorable Mention; Joshua Trees; International Photography Awards
2009 - Honorable Mention; Remarkable Trees; International Photography Awards2008 - Honorable Mention; Trees; International Photographer of the Year Awards
2008 - 3rd Place, Nature: Trees, Prix de la Photographie, Paris
2008 - Honorable Mention; Yosemite Renaissance XXIII
2005 - Best in Show, B&W. Exposure. Long Beach, CA
2005 - Honorable Mention; Landscape; International Photographer of the Year Awards
PUBLICATIONS
Michael's work has been written about and featured in Arte Fotográfico, Rangefinder magazine, Long Beach Business Journal, View Camera Magazine, The Photo Paper, San Bernardino National Forest Visitors Guide, the Hanford Sentinel, Best of Photography Annual (Serbin Communications), Nature Photographers Network, Broughton Quarterly, Essentials of Ecology (Brooks/Cole), Backpacker Magazine,, and more.