Mike Marcotte Photography

Wow, these have got to be the best photo's ever!! I have never more professional photos. Do you suppose you could teach me?

Absolutely stunning portfolio! Very impressive!

Thanks for the look...you 'see' with a clever eye. Excellent compositions. In particular I enjoy your foggy and/or twilight shots.

Très belle galerie...félicitations Mike

hi mike, i must say i love many of your photos.you transfer something in each of them. i prefer some B&W portraits that you shoot.the light is just very good.i will keep an eye on your portfolio.by the way, thanks for your good words about my doctor and homeless photograph.

You have a great eye for compositions!

Mike: I'm so glad you commented on my photo so I was able to discover your folder. These are wonderful and you have an absolutely incredible eye for composition and light. I'll be back... Eleanor

I like your rural images. Even though I live in the big city I find myself yearning for the country. So much more personality out there! Keep up the good work. Check out my portfolio , I've added a few.

good work - compliment!

You have a great eye for light and composition. Great portraits.

Great Folio!! It really brings a context, an atmosphere... I'm not sure how to explain... anyway I like it a lot!

Mike,

Love your work. You and I definately have similar tastes when it comes to what we shoot. Thanks for the feedback on mine!

amazing pictures! thanks for sharing them!

.oesse.

A good depiction of the midwest, Iowa or Illinois. There is a tendancy to downgrade rural life and the photos are worthy of the National Geographic.

My own experience has been that people from other parts of the world are fascinated by this part of the country.

Looking at your great b&w photos makes me feel even better about your favourable comment on one of my own modest tries.

Looking at Your portfolio and just can't decide what photos to comment on. Just great work! Your portraits Your outdoor pictures 90% of it is top class (and the rest is just great). Br /Olof

Very good! I thought I had left a comment on your portfolio already but it doesn't look like I did... I especially like the B&W landscapes and the rural folders. Keep them coming Mike.

Mike, I enjoyed examining your portfolio and left several complimentary comments. But I also want to compliment you on the self-portrait in sunglasses with fishing lures. It's really neat.

Just visited your portofolio. You have a lot of good and interesting photos. I was very happy to discover a curious eye with many good ideas in choosing subjects, composition, light rendering. Since I love black and white I particularly appreciated your bw too. Best wishes, Virgil

Mike, this is truely a fine body of work,I would think there should be a publisher very interested to put this collection of photographs in book form....Jim

MIke- I always like to check out someone new to me, who offers a comment on an image of mine. I am impressed with your work. You have a unique view of the ordinary. Your works with extreme light & shadow are my favorites. Thank you for commenting and leading me to your portfolio. I have enjoyed viewing it, it's super.

I love your photos & the technique. Great Work.

You are incredibly talented. You have a creative view and your work is immensely pleasing to the eye. WOW!

I very much enjoyed seeing your farmscapes and treescapes. The rural scenes serve as a showcase of rural America, you have said it all. Well done.

I have just spent an enjoyable half hour stomping around your portfolio. There are a lot of things about your photography that I missed noticing. You have a very discerning eye for the merits of ordinary situations to make them jump out at us with meaning, a new way of looking at old things.

Today, I noticed the colors in, and the angle you shot the bridge. Beautiful stuff. And for something quite the opposite there is your corn crib abstract.

I must make at least a monthly pilgramage to this portfolio to keep up to what you are doing.

I have added your photo.net portfolio to the "links" page of my home page, becasue this is some photography that I find inspiring. Hope you don't mind appearing on my very amature page. It is at www.mmmee.com if ever you have time. The page is only 1/4 finished right now. I have lots to do on it yet.

very nice work. I really enjoyed the treescapes. You have inspired me to get into more b&w stuff. Thanks for sharing this wonderful talent with us. k

I just wanted to say thank you for your comments. I LOVE your pictures, esp. the rural and farm ones. I eventually want to build a collection like those, and I'm planning on uploading some I have soon, so please leave me some feedback on those if you get the chance!

Hi Mike,

you've got some some great Black and Whites!

cheers C.

Mike, your portfolio has an enormous amount of images that display a greater degree of artistic vision and imagination. Cheer, Raphael

What a wonderful discovery. Some seriously good work here. I'll have to comment on some individually later but I am impressed how so many of your shots are perfectly seen. The subject within the frame is just so well positioned and balanced. Strong graphic style as well. I'll be back around.

Outstanding!!!

Mike, you have a very outstanding portfolio. I like all your work; however, the black and whites are my favorite. I am glad you took the time to rate my photo but you did not make a comment as to what I need to improve on. I really want to do this, however, if a rating is not explained then I have no way. Thanks again.

I love the new additions- There are so many that are just so great. You have talent and are an inspiration!

You have an excellent eye, Two in fact. Kind Regards Terry

I enjoyed your portfolio a lot, your photography is very much to my taste.

Very nice portfolio. Thanks for the tour. Particularly like your farmscapes and working people photos. Keep up the good work.

Nice portfolio Mike. I especially like what you are doing with vintage gear. Now I do not feel so alone here on Pnet.

Thanks so much for your comment regarding my photo "A Bride, A Curl And A Puff Of Air"! This was my first attempt at wedding photography. As a gift to the bride, I did some "behind the scene" photography as the hired photographer did the traditional formal shots. I was thrilled to have capture such a honest moment in a bride's special day!

I'm trying to build up some experience in this area so I can start to make some $$$ so I can do my true love - Nature photography. Your comment really gave me the courage to keep moving forward in that direction.

I took a journey through your portfolio and was impressed by the images you have also captured. I loved the bride as she was unsure of the lines and seams of her dress. I could hear her saying "Something's weird about this".

Thanks again Mike!

deb

Hi Mike. Great Portfolio full of fantastic photos. I specially like the Treescapes photos. Nice textures and light. Congratulations ;-)

The only things I like about your work is...The tonality,composition and subject matter of you images...no really I could go on....but my fingers would cramp up! Your worked stunned me...and that stunness reminds me to return to your portfolio for inspiration and also reminds me to use those old timers I have on my shelf...your Images...your vision...your inspiration... Thanks for sharing...Juan

Difficult to choose which of the several photos that matter. Think I like the pre-1970's the best; however, the Farmscapes are getting a lot of my attention. Since the vote is still out here, guess I'll just have to keep coming back for more. Excellent portfolio!

There are some photographers that just keep getting better and better because they do what they feel they have to do and because they have a vision. You have that certain something and I think you have barely scratched the surface. You have managed to dodge the various minefields here on PN and become a gifted photographer. You don't get caught up in all of the rating nonsense and most of your images thoughtfully articulate the world around you. It was a pleasure to meet you and your wife at the Milwaukee Art Museum and I hope I see you again, even if you are a "flatlander".

I'm impressed by your portfolio Mike. Your photos, although different in subject matter, all have the same 'look and feel' to them. Your have your own vision and I find that vision very appealing! Thank you for sharing.

You're very talented. I especially like your Rural Relics--I'm fascinated by this section.

Mike, I like your photography very much. There is a simple realism to it that appeals to me a great deal. Maybe the right word is 'unassuming', or 'unpretentious', but it is real people and real things. Perhaps it is just my prairie upbringing, but your photographs speak to me in a genuine way. Rick

I totally agree with Rick. Nice work here Mike. Quiet and honest. Elegant. Greetings.

as rick already said : your photography is about real things and people, approached through your own style. It is a pleasure to browse to your work ! A pleasure to get to know such great photographers here ! erwin

Nice of you to drop by and rate my photo. It is always reinvigorating having a better artist rating ones work so highly! Loved your portfolio!

Well...there you have it....came back for another visit...have been reading these comments...

It's obviouse to me that you make images that matter. Hope you have time to enjoy these comments over the holidays... Cheers juan

Thank you for your critiques and ratings through out the year. Happy New Year and all the best, take care.

thanks to your comment i've come to experience your portfolio
of very concentrated & altogether quite photographs of rural America
i think your feeling toward your subjects delivers way beyond your camera
i need to examine your images more closely & more slowly
to get the full impact....

Your portfolios on "Working People" and "Rural Relics" really touch a chord with me , I'm from SE North Carolina, and this could be home. You have a nice feel for your subject without being either preachy or condescending

Like Ian Green I am compelled to spend more time in your wonderful portfolio. I will be back. Thankyou for your comment on my image. Regards Clive

Thanks Mike! That was in another live. Great memories though. Now it's a hobby.

Widely eclectic quality portfolio. I greatly appreciate your use of the various cameras. Well done; I'll be back to see more.

Cheers from Ottawa.

Mike You have a very impressive portefolio. It give me some idea to explore.

Also thanks for your comments on my photo titled "this man". Ah, I don't drink what it is north of the border but what it is east to the ocean. Very better stuff ;)

Thanks for visit.

I like your potfolio "Rulal relics", very interesting.

Wow....your portfolio is impressive. I love your work. I'm glad I stopped by for a look. Thank you for sharing.

Anna

Congratulations on getting your web site on line. It looks pretty good. I love the name Rural Relics.

I always find I am spending more time in your portfolio then I meant to spend. Love the film black and whites.

What a treat. Such a wonderful sense of light.

Absolutely perfect.Wishing you all of the best my friend .

Uncle Mike, your photos are wonderfull. Words can't describe how perfect they are. WOW!

Thank you for looking in on me. Your portfolio is sure something else. Congratulations!!! As for your comment about taking a photo that matters, well, in my opinion every photo matters. Whether just to you or someone else or the whole world, is of no consequence. By the way, the leaf you commented on is a real one, it has no more "meat" on it, just "ribs". Sorry, but that is the only way I can describe it. As for the stained glass look, it got the same "treatment" as my other abstracts. Best regards from............Helga

In good time I have discovered your portfolio Mike. Very consistent, diversified and well acomplished with great captures. Congrats

Thank you for your comments, means a lot comming from someone with a portfolio like yours :) regards

Have just had a wee look at your portfolio. Some lovely work here , very nice indeed. Thank you for your comment on one of my images.

Ah - beautiful portfolio... I'm constantly amazed at what happens one someone reaches a level where their mastery of the instrument allows them to roam freely and follow their gaze to capture the world around them, unique in time and place and vision to that person, giving us a window, everclear, into a life. Thanks for doing this work, we all benefit.

Your work is very nice. I really enjoyed looking through your albums.

-Aubre

I 'm very fond of the 15 photos of people at work (Working People)and wish to see some more like these, they are indeed excellent. Thanks for sharing.

some really nice work tucked away here in your portfolio, I have so enjoyed ny browse and shall be back again. All the best to you!

Mike, you've got terrific shots here - I particularly love the cars and the rural relics. I notice on you say that your goal is to one day take a photograph that makes a difference. Well, I think every photograph that anyone views in some way makes a difference, only maybe a small one, but that image is forever with them. When I look at your photographs taken around Illinois I can imagine standing in those locations even though I've never been there - so that's made a difference to me. Thanks and keep enjoying!

I think more than anything else, you have a close contact with people; I just love (and envy) that. I laso like some of your simplistic and rather abstract photos especially in B&W. All the best!

Mike

What a great collection of images you have captured!

deb

nice stuff

Wow...what an artist you are! To see the world thru your camera lens is a journey in itself. A wonderful escape from some of the ugliness in the world. The photo of the cute girl with a slightly crooked smile is one of my favorites.

it's about that special time of year Mike, no doubt we share the same joy, happy hunting.

Yeah Mike, whenever I cross that little creek east of Onarga, I think I'm going to see you.

You have many great images within your stream. It was a pleasure to view them and i will be back from time to time for more. Thanks for sharing. Take Care Weston

I like your documentary style because it has a very a personal touch. You people portfolio is excellent, but my favorite is Rural Relics... probably because that's a favorite subject of mine!

Excellent images!

Exceptional portfolio. I am not a huge fan of portrait shots but I found yours quite intriguing. Keep up the great work. I will be back to visit.

Mike, thank you for sharing your great talent. Your gallery certainly is an inspiration and learning tool for me.

Great portfolio. I really like the people and rural shots.

Excellent images, with compliments. Gianpaolo

Such a rich portfolio full of expression and studied composition! You're depicting a beautiful - unknown to us foreigners - America. I am honoured you visited my page! I will be posting comments on individual photos here! All the best!

I really like the Working people-folder.Very good idea and photos.Hope, one day you'll shoot 'a picture that matters'.Regards A.

Thank you. I'm on a mission. Just one good shot.

A happy event that you rated one of my photos (and apparently saw something in it). That led me to your portfolio. Very impressive, and now I'm definitely flattered.

Amazing creativity! Congratulations!

Hi Mike!

You have a great portfolio. I will come back often to enjoy with your photos.

Best regards.

Very well put together portfolio! You have an exceptional eye for detail, and texture. Your 'portrait' shots have sparked my interest in 'people' photo's. Keep up the great work.

Impressive!

Thanks Dick. Good to hear from you.

Hi Mike: I ran across your portfolio, and am quite impressed...your images of the midwest, rural areas, and people are gritty, and very moody. Great work... lauren partida

Hi,Mike

Thanks for your kindly rating on my photo "even life is short, long enough to stop for a while, still.". I look through your portfolio. I like many of your photos especially the treescapes ones. they are very beautiful and creative. I'll come back often. Best regards!

I love your photos - very atmospheric. I especially like the 'working people' and '8-ball' series.

If it is old, black and white, or different I like it and you have it all. Wonderful to look at.

Tell me I'm not going crazy. I was busy working on a few suggestions for your great window photo and then - poof! - it was gone. IMHO, all it needs is a bit of color correction and some clone stamping. So I hope this truly is your photo and that you'll like my suggestions, offered in the best of the PN spirit of community. Great portfolio! Cheers -

wish you happy Christmas holidays and a new year flourishing with fresh photo themes!

Wonderful talent for urban eyescapes!

Good B/N portfolio, specially in the rural houses and farms. An evocation of this rural world. Regards

love your "Tree Scapes and Farm Scapes" files... fine work... Warm Regards and Blessings throughout our New Year......

PEACE & Happy New Year to you and your family.Basilis

Superb B/W street photography.You have a great portofolio.Congrats.Best Regards, Kostas!

congrats for your portfolio that I follow fore some time. You do really have wonderfull photos! my best regards!

i see a totally awesome portfolio here. i'm amazed, in particular, by the delicate interaction with the people being photographed shown in your inspiring shots. best regards, lin

Hey Mike - Great stuff in your rural relics and farmscapes folders, AND your people shots kick tail too. Great eye all around. EO

Hi Mike. you really have a great portfolio. Your B&W take on life and people especially is really impressive. I really like the fact that you both often show a quite rough part of life and people, but at the same time always show these people in their best, never going into sentimentality. Very impressive. congratulations

Your comment means a lot to me. If you ever see one of my photos where I leave someone without their dignity, feel free to bust me in the chops. Thanks.

... that you wanted to take one photo that matters. Given the difficulty in fulfilling that objective since change is a basic part of the universe, I might suggest that your body of work as shown in your portfolio does matter. A consistent, sympathetic, humanistic view of the world around you. I think it is simply wonderful work. Congratulations.

I'm visiting you portfolio regularly, enjoying your work a lot, and am very happy everytime I see on my list of "interesting" people that you updated your portfolio, so don't worry about me leaving comments. But, I can't see how it would be possible for you to start not seeing the inner soul of the people anymore, and I'm pretty confident you won't ever give me any opportunity to bust you in the chops :-) Not only you make me discover a place you love, but I can feel your love and undertstanding of its unhabitants, and here resides your art. I also suspect that even if you were by any chance shooting an "undignified" person, you would make this person shine.

Please keep shooting and sharing.

thanks laurent

What a great collection. You have your own style and a very good use of natural light. You have a exectionally distinctive style, and a photographer that is comfortable with his approach and still maintains a common mood. We share some of the same subject interest, and I look forward to visiting once again!

Keep it up Mike.

Thanks for commeting on my image "Bird Tree..." I know it's very simple but when I saw it there with all the birds and the sun lighting up the exposed branches, I had to capture it.

I really love your black and white images. I could learn so much from you. I have recently become very interest and intrigued by black and white film. I've been taking an old Nikon FM (I bought off e-bay) out and trying to master this artform. My biggest problem is not having a great supply of interesting subject material where I live. Oh how I dream of going out to Death Valley someday with rolls and rolls of black and white film.

deb

I stumbled on your portfolio and I really enjoyed going through it. I used to live in Beatrice Nebraska and your farm images bring back fond memories. You've made several photos that matter. Regards, Ron

Thank you for your comment on my photo. I looked at your portfolio and I like many of your photos. Most of all the black and white.

Luca Alessandro

Great stuff. I enjoy looking through you work.

Only a word: SUPERB!

Your goal is to some day make a photograph that matters, well most of what I've seen in your portfolio are photograph that matters. your way of loking and capturing the image at the precice momment make the photo that matters. Very inspiring work.

Regards Pierre

Mike, you have a very diversified portfolio, many excellect photo's. You have one of the best street photography portfolios that I have seen. Your working people and urban relic folders are top notch, as are every folder in your portfolio.

... Very Good Portfolio ...

... Thanks for the rating ... Warm regards.

Very nice set of photos. Your vintage camera pics and relics are inspiring.

You have a diversified portfolio with nice shots, nice colors and great B&W photos, congratulations ! Alex.

Mike, Thanks for a comment. Your pictures have a feel of nostalgia of old times, appreciation of land, people at their hard work.

I do not live in the USA and I find your rural and small town photos very interesting, a truly documentary style. Regards

Thanks for your comment (to my photo Hermanos) I really appreciate it very much, especially coming from you. You have really good “environmental” portraits. Best Regards

Your images show a mastery of natural light and tell a compelling personal story. A truly wonderful collection of work, which I admire. Best Regards, Lauren

Thanks a lot. That means a lot coming from an artist like you

i like a lot of shots here- esp. in B&W folder & vintage shots. Keep it up!

You have a monumental portfolio with excellent shots and great colors, congratulations ! Roxana.

Been a pleasure browsing through your portfolio. A confident, individualized statement.

Hi Mike, your images are launching points and some of them do go beyond the image!

you do

outstanding work

when those who know ask for

a body of work consistent showing

the artist's vision - this is it

while i'm not sure i could pick any individual image out

and say it's yours, it's easy to see the underlying thread

in every image you've presented - like the whole thing is

coherent.

phenomenal

Thanks for that

Thanks for rating one of my photos. You have many interesting images here. I will be back to see what's new. Congrats.

Mike,

Thank you for your comments on my photo. Your portfolio is just amazing. I really like the farmscapes, and in the future hope to do more of that type of work myself.

I also like the pool table shots and how you used the lighting for composition. Just excellent!

Thanks again, Keith in Montana

So interesting and inspiring portfolio. I like your B&W's. Beautiful, well done Mike.

Thanks a lot for your honorable words about my photography and very small part of my portfolio, I appreciated.

I'm really impressed visiting your portfolio after my silent five years on Photo.Net. Your photography talent and skill are just impressive. Especially your B&W mediums are mostly enviable. Hope we can get more opportunity to share photos . Congratulations.

Friendly Regards,

Ertugrul

Hi man.

Thanks for your supportive words. It means a lot, coming from a person who has such a nice collection of documentary and street photos. :)

I like your work!

Keep in touch.

Mike. . . I've gotten a huge buzz from your work for quite sometime now, but for some unspecific reason more so lately it seems. I feel very connected to your PEOPLE folder - some of the shots are stronger than others, as can be expected, but they all share a photographic sensibility and a point of view that belongs to you and you alone, that is empathetic and pure.

thanks so much for ur support.

very impressive gallery by the way ! congrats.

xxx

I'd forgotten all about that lonely pheasant going about his day so I had to go through your collection to find it.

Good grief, you have some very compelling imagery here. Very sensitive renderings, a real pleasure to explore. Congrats.

I highly enjoy seeing the work of those who see the beauty in everything and can capture its inherent quality. It takes a certain flow in life to find that groove of recognition. Enjoy the ride. You evidently are.

John

Hello Mike, First of all, thank you for your kind rating on one of my photos. I used this occasion to browse your portfolio and I am much impressed. I like very much the idea of the " Cameras before 70s" and the "Treescapes" galleries. I am fascinated about the diversity of tree images as displayed in your gallery and the artistic touch you bring out of these. I will certainly revisit your work from time to time to learn. Good light!

Wishing you and your family a merry Christmas. May the new year brings you all success, happiness and peace. Many greetings and best regards, Linh Dinh

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Here comes Santa to bring you more of these wonderful photographs for the year to come! Merry Christmas!

PDE

Happy new year Mike for you..for your family..and for your art..

Thank you for commenting on my recent post, I have dropped by to check your portfolio which has obviously grown since my last visit. Your talent in capturing people in their envirnment is well presented.

Mike, I love your treescapes, because they do matter. the creation of beauty will always matter, and on top of that you've transported me, not only to a place in your past, but also to places in my own. Too bad you can't charge by the mile!

be well, do good work, michael

Absolutely love the Farmscapes!!!

What a wonderful collection of quality photographs, I really enjoyed my time here. Thanks for sharing and your nice comment on my submitted photo.

Best regards Sadegh

but I love the abstracted forms and subtle colors of your work.

Hi Mike,

After seeing your no words image "Through the glass" you hit your goal again. Congrats.

Your work is beyond interesting.  Thanks for sharing.  By any chance did you take any of these with a 1970 Fujica?

Do you have anything on Miha and the Cryin' Shames?  If so, would love to see it.