Michael Lopes

I've been interested in photography since I was in my twenties.   After purchasing a Sony mirrorless in 2016 I fell back in love with photography.   About the same time I started photographing hummingbirds in my back yard in Ben Lomond, California.   Since getting back into photography I've taken several trips,  one of them was to Tanzania where I got the experience of photographing animals on a much larger scale than my hummingbirds.  

I also volunteer at the Santa Cruz SPCA taking photographs of pets for their adoption website.  I always enjoy the special moment where I can capture an expression of human or a wild animal.

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Fast forward to 2021.  With the COVID pandemic I started doing sports photography.   I started out with surfing, then did some Indy racing at Laguna Seca.   The skill to take hummingbird photos transferred easily to fast moving humans.  I'm finding that humans appreciate a great photograph of themselves much more than the birds.