Mike Bates Photography

08/19/2014

New Blog Post: Berkley - 01

Today, my girlfriend and I went to the nearby town of Berkley. As we sometimes do, we headed out to take photos, explore, and just have fun adventuring and spending time together. I wasn't sure what exactly what I would be taking pictures of, but as we walked around I noticed a lot of retro signage…

07/14/2014

New Blog Post: The Big A

My family lives about an hour away from the city of Ann Arbor. Whenever we'd drive up during my childhood, we'd go by a large sign with a blazing letter "A" for the Arborland shopping center. We called it "The Big A." In the past few years though, those words have taken on a bit of a different meani…

06/17/2014

New Blog Post: Traditional v.s. Mobile Editing

Today was the first day that really felt like summer to me. I woke up at an acceptably late 9am, showered, got ready, and then headed out to a cafe in a nearby downtown with my mom to spend a few hours working and just enjoying being 'out'. The cafe was quite the nice experience; nice aesthetics, go…

06/15/2014

New Blog Post: Summer.

It's finally here. After a long year of schooling; summer has finally, mercifully, arrived. I know I've been posting a little less recently. I think this has been in part to being busier towards the end of this last semester with studying, projects and the like, and partly because I've been in a li…

06/04/2014

New Blog Post: Mountainous Macintosh

On Monday, Apple unveiled the latest version of Mac OS X. The operating system has now reached it's tenth major revision, and with that not only comes new features but the largest visual change we've seen to date. In past updates OS X has had visual changes for sure, but the aesthetic transition has…

05/28/2014

New Blog Post: Mini Series - Rainy Day

Today, was a rainy day. Something about this day sort of prompted me throughout it to take pictures of it. Maybe it was all the new greenery of late spring. Maybe it was how even though it was rainy, it wasn't dark and there was still plenty of natural light. Maybe it was the way the new VSCOcam Hyp…

05/19/2014

05/16/2014

New Blog Post: MBS-P-B Meta v2.0 - Huge Site Update

Well folks, I've come to the conclusion that I will never be happy with my website. Once again I've made a giant overhaul to how the site looks and functions, and I feel it's a large enough update to herald a whole 'point update'. This is MBS-P-B v2.0 - welcome to the new site. Changes: - A new bree…

05/16/2014

The site is back up and updated!!! Enjoy the new site at http://mbs-p-b.com/ !

05/16/2014

New Blog Post: Shooting in Layers

The other day, I made a rather last minute trip to the mall. I'd had a morning fraught with gear failure; with both my earbuds and my laptop's charging cable giving out within the space of a few hours, and so pretty much more than anything else at that particualar moment I wanted to get my charger r…

05/16/2014

The site will be down for maintenance for most of the day today. It should be up with some improvements later today or tomorrow.

05/14/2014