The Mythical Photographer

Before meeting with a client, they sometimes wonder who's the mystery man behind the camera. So, I figured that if I should enhance the mythical nature of my existence, I'll hype it further using imagery, smoke and mirrors. Ok, there's no mirror involved, just one flashlight, is all it took. The smoke you see is actually humid sea breeze, mixed with fine sand in the cave.

Folks in my forum then got really creative and started doing the Sprint commercial thing writing out the name of my personal website/forum, i.e. the SooCool in the soocool.com/forum. SooCool Photography Forum of the San Francisco Bay Area, California is the largest local photography forum in California with over a thousand members who post/read/browse the forum on a daily basis. I found plenty of great photographers/friends in the forum than I thought I would. Fantastic guys/gals who love photography with a passion.

In my last pose, I made full use of the floating dust to create a lightsaber look. I call it, The Explorer

- Michael Soo