"Our Ocean Friends" Painting

Edward Michaels is an American photographer with a remarkable talent for creating thought provoking imagery and brilliant encounters with color and light. With a career that spans over thirty years he attributes much of his success to hard work and a dedication to his craft. Coming from a background education of architecture and design, a former rescue swimmer and ocean certified diver Ed is self taught with a camera, he worked alongside renowned fashion and advertising photographer Barry O’Rourke. His knowledge of color and light add to the splendor of his masterful images captivating the eye of the viewer. With a string of awards and gallery exhibits to his credit his photographs brighten homes, corporate showrooms and office buildings in America and around the globe. These images illustrate a synthesis of graceful beauty entertaining us with their individual source of energy and spirituality. Traveling the world extensively throughout his career his passion for preserving our planet for future generations inspired his mystical array of sea life, nature and landscape photography.Whether its a panorama of the Statue of Liberty, an aerial view of Marathon runners, an Eagle soaring high above the treetops his photography captivates the essence of their beauty with his camera lens.