MIKE BROOMFIELD
Mike retired from the high-tech industry in 2015 (30+ years as a Manufacturing Process Engineer making computer chips) and about a month later drove from Cape Cod to Buffalo for his 1st visit to Silo City. His photographic journey started in his 20’s taking landscape images while hiking in the Lake District and Scottish Highlands in the UK. “I wanted to be able to transfer those scenes to prints on my wall and feel as though I were there.” Printing is still one of the main drives behind his photography.
On moving to the US he switched from color to black and white, followed by a move to medium, then large format before the digital age. He now sees and makes prints in both colour and black and white and considers himself an “any” scape photographer; landscape and industrial landscape, cityscape, seascape etc and in addition to natural light has been using light-painting in the early morning, nighttime and indoor photography over the last few years to help with the final vision of these scenes.
Mike is the author of the book “Silo City Images” with a foreword by Rick Smith (owner of Silo City) available at the Duende bar.
All images printed on canvas, hand coated and stretch mounted by the artist
© Mike Broomfield
Mike retired from the high-tech industry in 2015 (30+ years as a Manufacturing Process Engineer making computer chips) and about a month later drove from Cape Cod to Buffalo for his 1st visit to Silo City. His photographic journey started in his 20’s taking landscape images while hiking in the Lake District and Scottish Highlands in the UK. “I wanted to be able to transfer those scenes to prints on my wall and feel as though I were there.” Printing is still one of the main drives behind his photography.
On moving to the US he switched from color to black and white, followed by a move to medium, then large format before the digital age. He now sees and makes prints in both colour and black and white and considers himself an “any” scape photographer; landscape and industrial landscape, cityscape, seascape etc and in addition to natural light has been using light-painting in the early morning, nighttime and indoor photography over the last few years to help with the final vision of these scenes.
Mike is the author of the book “Silo City Images” with a foreword by Rick Smith (owner of Silo City) available at the Duende bar.
All images printed on canvas, hand coated and stretch mounted by the artist
© Mike Broomfield
