Please join the Arundel Camera Club at 7pm on April 17th in person at the Severna Park Baptist Church or on FaceBook Live for a program by Michael Oberman on “Wildlife and Nature.”

Michael’s interest in photography began when he was a music columnist at the Washington Star newspaper. Writing a weekly interview column for six years, Michael interviewed over 300 artists including Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, David Bowie, James Brown…in total, a veritable Who’s Who of the music world. There were times when there were no photographers available to accompany him on assignments…so Michael brought his own Nikon with him.  When Michael left the Star to work in the music industry, he stored away his camera gear. Twenty years ago, on a trip to New Mexico, Michael switched from film to digital photography.

Since that time, Michael has taken over one million photographs…mainly nature but including landscapes, architecture, people, cityscapes and much more.

Michael’s photographs are on permanent display in U.S. National Parks including Steigerwald (overlooking the Columbia River Gorge) and Modoc (on a trailhead in the Sierra Nevadas).  The Utah Museum of Natural History has one of his photographs on permanent display in its at the entrance to its “Life” exhibit.

Six of Michael’s photos toured U.S. and Canadian museums for five years in an exhibit called “Imaginate”…under the auspices of the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto (where the same six photos are on permanent display).

His first book, “Fast Forward, Play, and Rewind,” was published in 2020. His photographs have also appeared in publications including Parade Magazine, The London Daily Mirror, The Baltimore Sun, Motoring and Leisure (Great Britain), Why Men Make Bad Pets (book), The Lotus: Know It and Grow It (book), Middle School textbooks in Israel, and Elementary School textbooks in Malaysia. Michael has exhibited at: Circle Gallery (Annapolis), Slayton House Gallery (Columbia, MD), and The Netherlands Pavilion (Expo 2009 in Spain). His nature photographs have also appeared in exhibitions and on web sites in Norway, Germany, China, Thailand, Brazil, Canada…and more.

Michael lives in Columbia Maryland where several times a year he teaches Nature Photography.