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Photographing Every Departure at LAX's South Complex: "Wake Turbulence"
I just spent about 16 hours shooting and putting this image together, and I've written a little blog post, below, detailing some background information and how I did it. While not specifically related...
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Only three spots left at my upcoming workshop, and I'm giving a spot away to...
As many of you know, I am teaching a couple of workshops at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas during the first-ever Fstoppers Workshop. At this point, there are only a few weeks left to register, and...
View ArticleAnnouncing the winners of my Bahamas workshop contest!
After receiving about a hundred great entries across a few different platforms, I've finally whittled them down to my two favorites. I've judged a few contests over the last couple of years and this...
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Photographing the historic Sun Theater in St Louis, MO
A few weeks ago I packed up the gear, took a way-too-early flight out of Los Angeles and landed a few hours later in St Louis, where I would be photographing the recently-restored Sun Theater for the...
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A catchup post: Back in Los Angeles after nearly six weeks abroad
Exhale. That is what I have been trying to do for the past week.I just had the most incredible, crazy, up-and-down, exhausting month-and-a-half of my life. At the end of May, I had a spate of shoots...
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Los Angeles Prefab: BluHomes in Malibu
I've photographed a lot of things in Los Angeles, heck, and things much further afield. And this was hands down one of the coolest things I've shot. BluHomes, a San Francisco-based company that...
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Ventura County From Above: On assignment with 805 Living
A few months ago I was invited by 805 living to shoot a huge feature for their 10th anniversary issue. Having seen my aerial work of the city of Los Angeles, knowing that Ventura County was just a...
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Recent press for Michael Kelley Photography
It's been a crazy few months with lots of great new opportunities, so I figured I would round up a few of my favorite bits of press and throw them up on the blog. Very exciting to see my work getting...
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The gear post: What does Michael Kelley use to create his work?
Architectural photography is a haven for gearheads, and I frequently get asked what I'm using. So a few days ago I figured I'd lay it all out and put it to rest once and for all. I rigged up a rather...
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Interiors Photography: Sunset Strip Highrise in LA with NYID
While working in Los Angeles, you get to see a very, very wide variety of different architecture and interiors, and every now and then something comes along that you know you'd just never see anywhere...
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Aerial photography of the labor dispute at the Port of LA and Long Beach
As anyone who follows my work knows, I'm fascinated by industry and infrastructure. For the past few weeks, a labor dispute has been unfolding at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach....
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Wine Country Pre-Fab with BluHomes in Healdsburg
Apologies for the lack of blogging lately! I haven't been in Los Angeles much at all, with trips to San Francisco, NYC, Dubai, Mexico and somewhere else that I forget, it's just been an absolutely...
View ArticleArchitectural Photography Q+A With University of Lancashire Student
I recently received an email from a student at the University of Lancashire in Preston, England, asking for a few minutes to answer some questions for a report he'd been working on. What I initially...
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LA AIRSPACE Kickstarter: Halfway done, 86% funded!
I have neglected the blog on this site for the past month, which is rather unfortunate, considering all that has been going on! I recently decided that the time was right to wrap up and publish my work...
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A long way from Los Angeles
I have not written much at all on here, which I simultaneously regret and also enjoy. I had one of the most productive summers of my life, so am loathe to say that I was 'too busy' to write up here,...
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Eyes Aloft: The Sublimity of Plane Spotting" Published in Virgina Quarterly...
Over the past couple of years I’ve been working to photograph airports all over the world, and a large part of that project involves photographing aviation enthusiasts who line the edges of runways...
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The Making of Airportraits: Chasing Planes Around The World
I just spent nearly two years of my life photographing airplanes and airports.It wasn’t two years straight with no interruption, but it did occupy a good deal of my waking hours. Even if I wasn’t...
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Photographing Brickell City Centre in Miami, FL
Over the last six months I’ve been traveling regularly to Miami, FL, to photograph the new Brickell City Centre development. Spanning over six acres spread across five city blocks, the project is...
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On Assignment with Arquitectonica
Over the past few months, I’ve had the good fortune to photograph roughly 35 projects by Arquitectonica, the Miami, Florida, based architecture firm known for iconic projects such as American Airlines...
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Going to Church, Photographing LAX
Beauty is not the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of Los Angeles International Airport. Most often the first word you’re going to think of is explicit, four letters long, and is...
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