Born in Indianapolis, raised from the age of 2 in Alaska, mostly in Anchorage. Moved to Seattle in the summer of 2001. Moved to Ellensburg in 2011, but after six years, enthusiastically moved back to the Seattle area: Renton for two years, and now on Kent's East Hill near Lake Meridian.
Past cameras include an old film point and shoot, an early cheap no-name digital, a Kodak DX3500, an Olympus C2500L, a Canon Powershot A95, a Casio EX-Z77, a Nikon D70s, and a Nikon D7000.
Current kit: Nikon D750 with Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G, 24mm f/2.8D, 50mm f/1.4D, and 500mm f/8 C Reflex, Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 and 85mm f/1.4, Konica Hexanon 50mm f/1.7, Vivitar 135mm f/2.8, Quantaray 28mm f/2.8, 55-200mm f/4-5.6, 70-210mm f/4-5.6, and PocketDispo lenses; and Nikon SB-800 and SB-600 flashes for when I'm pretending I know what I'm doing.
Other electronic haunts, in rough order of how likely I am to show up: My blog is Eclecticism, and I'm also on Mastodon and Facebook.
- JoinedFebruary 2004
- OccupationAccessible Technology Program Manager
- HometownAnchorage, AK
- Current cityKent, WA
- CountryUSA
- Websitehttp://michaelhans.com/
- Facebookmichael.hanscom
Testimonials
He's a long coat wearing, ginger-headed genius with a camera, documenting everything from the lives of the seattle technorati to awesome lamp-post art to hundreds of ordinary, everyday, intimate moments. The king of the sneaky candid shots of life. All hail Seattle's shutterbug supremo.