“I was born and raised in Seattle and graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in English Literature, intending to teach college level English. Right around the same time, my father built a darkroom in his house and I thought that, since the opportunity was there, I should learn to take a decent photograph. But developing and printing that first roll of film turned out to be a life changing experience, and I never went back to graduate school. And I have been photographing ever since.

For subject matter I was particularly drawn to architecture. Something about the serenity of being able to patiently compose and execute photographs of buildings worked for me. A few years ago I started to photograph golf courses also. I have been a passionate golfer my entire life, and shooting golf courses combines my love of golf and my love of landscape photography in a perfect way for me.

Of all the artistic media, I believe that architecture, including landscape architecture (which to me includes golf course design) is the one that most directly touches our daily lives. My role is to appreciate and elucidate that architecture.

My favorite quotation about photography is by Cartier-Bresson and expresses pretty well my feelings about the art and craft of picture making: '...to take photographs is to find the structure of the world – to revel in the pure pleasure of form, to disclose that in all this chaos there is order'.”

                                                               - Mike Seidl

These outstanding golf landscapes are mounted, matted and hand-signed on
the mat by the photographer.                

Printed with archival inks on archival paper.

Mat size: 16" x 12"
Image size: 11.5" x 7.5"

Price: $75

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