This is a new journey for me, to write about my experiences and thoughts related to my industry of photography. 

 I began my passion as a 16-year old with a little film camera. After sampling styles of photography, I never settles on one, because the artistic value that photography offers cannot be selfishly restricted to just nature photography, or wedding photography, or whatever photography genre you have explored and enjoyed. My golden rule is, "Every photographic genre is, and has, an artistic value." Every moment of every day, no matter what part of the universe you are in, from Times Square in New York buying your first Rolex, or looking out the window on the NASA Space Station back at the Earth, or bathing your first born in the Nile River, every moment captured by your eye is recorded with a value from the viewpoint of the person in the moment. So is the same with a photographic instrument. Whether film camera or digital, everything seen with the naked eye is seen with a camera and a value is installed on that image by the person capturing the moment, frozen in time. A wedding day brings a value of joy. A shooting star brings a value of awe. A car crash brings a value of concern. Not every photo is meant to be an exciting exhibition of happiness. Sometimes we find ourselves in the midst of tragic circumstances that capture a photo of epic proportion, like the day we mourned as Americans for our nation on 9/11. This is my core belief as a photographer, and I hope you read on as I continue to bring you issues I face in the industry.

Thank you... Michael Masi... "AKA" ... Click ...