{"id":18340,"date":"2011-12-04T21:47:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T04:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-and-artistic-dont-miss-michael\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T06:24:22","slug":"rusty-old-artistic-michael-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Rusty, Old and Artistic: Don&#8217;t Miss Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Frusty-old-artistic-michael-h%2F&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2F55-Chevy.jpg&amp;description=Rusty%2C+Old+and+Artistic%3A+Don%E2%80%99t+Miss+Michael\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\" rel=\"lightbox[18340]\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"Rusty, Old and Artistic: Don\u2019t Miss Michael\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Rusty, Old and Artistic: Don\u2019t Miss Michael&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\" data-text=\"Rusty, Old and Artistic: Don\u2019t Miss Michael\" data-desc=\"Hot Rod & Custom Car Photography & Writing Through some good luck and a willingness to talk to everyone I meet... \"Hey Do you use the internet!?\" is a favorite thing my buddies tease me about... I bumped into Michael Harrington up at Bonneville Salt Flats in 2010. He was photographing a sick\" data-image=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/55-Chevy.jpg\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><h3>Hot Rod &amp; Custom Car Photography &amp; Writing<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/55-Chevy.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18340]\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18341\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"1955 Chevy Bonneville Race Car\" alt=\"bonneville race car, 1955 Chevy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/55-Chevy.jpg\" width=\"575\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/55-Chevy.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/55-Chevy-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/55-Chevy-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/55-Chevy-575x382.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through some good luck and a willingness to talk to everyone I meet&#8230; &#8220;Hey Do you use the internet!?&#8221; is a favorite thing my buddies tease me about&#8230; I bumped into Michael Harrington up at <a title=\"Everything I've written about Bonneville\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/tag\/bonneville-salt-flats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bonneville Salt Flats<\/a> in 2010. He was photographing a sick gasser Corvette (yes, on the salt!) and I asked who he shot for. Well, he&#8217;s worked for a few Primedia\/Source Interlink titles you&#8217;ve heard of, most recently, Super Chevy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward to present and Michael and I are back in touch and we&#8217;ve worked out a deal to publish his incredible photography and musings here at MyRideisMe.com. It&#8217;s incredible to publish professional pictures like this! Michael&#8217;s got a gift and I know I&#8217;ll learn from staring at his work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I snaked this info from his photography home page <a title=\"Hot rod and custom car photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.automotive-photography.net\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Automotive-Photography.net<\/a> to let you know more about him:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I don&#8217;t know how it happened, but it did. I guess most of us enthusiasts can blame it on our fathers. In my case, I can definitely pass the blame. My father was never a huge Hot Rodder by any stretch of the imagination, but as a child I do remember him working on other people&#8217;s cars and his own Grand Torino. From an early age I learned to appreciate the aesthetics and sounds of the American automobile. Then in the late 1980&#8217;s my grandfather gave me his 1973 Camaro. That act of generosity pretty much sealed my fate. A 17-year-old kid behind the wheel of a muscle car is altogether an exciting and stupid thing. That love &#8212; the love of feeling the torque throw you back into your seat; the curves, the chrome &#8212; it has always stuck with me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In college I would daily drive my lowered &#8217;59 Buick Lesabre to school, attracting the strangest stares of curiosity (even from fellow &#8220;art&#8221; students). To them I was known as &#8220;that car guy&#8221;. How I became an automotive photographer was really quite by accident and not by my own design. If I was smart, I would have learned something practical like business or finance. But sometimes we don&#8217;t choose what we become, it chooses us. Besides, I think I would rather be strangled by a piano wire if I had to chain myself to a desk every day. Taking a beginning photography class for &#8220;fun&#8221; steered me into a whole new direction and ultimately became my career choice. After doing some freelancing for various automotive magazines during college, I was recruited and offered a job at Super Chevy magazine. I quit college and took the job, working for nearly five years writing and shooting stories all across the country. Working for a magazine and traversing the country was quite an exciting experience. Working for a giant corporation that owns nearly all the popular titles on the shelf, however, was not quite as exciting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These days I have gone back to freelance photography, shooting and writing for various publications and companies. Of course, everything I do is still related to the automobile &#8212; that love will never die.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>So as you can see, he&#8217;s a car guy that&#8217;s been into it forever.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rusty-Pickups-book2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[18340]\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18343\" style=\"margin: 4px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Michael's Book: Rusty Pickups\" alt=\"old truck photography\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rusty-Pickups-book2.jpg\" width=\"250\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rusty-Pickups-book2.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rusty-Pickups-book2-150x115.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Rusty-Pickups-book2-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a>Michael&#8217;s got an impressive resume of pictures and has an easy reading way of describing them too. Car Tech agreed and published a book of Michael&#8217;s work called <a title=\"Rusty Pickups Book over on Amazon\" href=\"&lt;iframe src=&quot;http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=myriisme-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1934709530&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;width:120px;height:240px;&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" target=\"_blank\">Rusty Pickups: American Workhorses Put to Pasture.<\/a> You can grab it over at <a title=\"Rusty Pickups over on Amazon\" href=\"&lt;iframe src=&quot;http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=myriisme-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=1934709530&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr&quot; style=&quot;width:120px;height:240px;&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So enjoy the stories and pictures and let Michael know you&#8217;re dig&#8217;n it by leaving a comment here and there. I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll appreciate it and we&#8217;ll both know if we&#8217;re on the right track with the stories we&#8217;re publishing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<br \/>\npikesan<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.myrideisme.com%2FBlog%2Frusty-old-artistic-michael-h%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=Rusty%2C+Old+and+Artistic%3A+Don%E2%80%99t+Miss+Michael\" class=\"pin-it-button\" count-layout=\"none\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/PinExt.png\" title=\"Pin It\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button_count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\" data-via=\"myrideisme\" data-text=\"Rusty, Old and Artistic: Don\u2019t Miss Michael\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Rusty, Old and Artistic: Don\u2019t Miss Michael&amp;body=https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/icons_small\/email.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Email\" title=\"Email\"\/><span class=\"mr_small_icon\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.myrideisme.com\/Blog\/rusty-old-artistic-michael-h\/\" data-text=\"Rusty, Old and Artistic: Don\u2019t Miss Michael\" data-desc=\"Hot Rod & Custom Car Photography & Writing Through some good luck and a willingness to talk to everyone I meet... \"Hey Do you use the internet!?\" is a favorite thing my buddies tease me about... I bumped into Michael Harrington up at Bonneville Salt Flats in 2010. He was photographing a sick\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p>Email Hot Rod &amp; Custom Car Photography &amp; Writing Through some good luck and a willingness to talk to everyone I meet&#8230; &#8220;Hey Do you use the internet!?&#8221; is a favorite thing my buddies tease me about&#8230; I bumped into Michael Harrington up at Bonneville Salt Flats in 2010. 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