Hi. Welcome to my flickr site. My photography business goes under the name of Mitchell R. Grosky Photography, but please feel free to call me Mitch. I also have a Wordpress photo blog at mrgrosky.wordpress.com.

   

I am a freelance photographer in a small town in Central Massachusetts. I have been in love with photography and taking photos of people and places since I bought my first film Pentax Super Program SLR back about 30 years ago. Now, nearly all of my photography is Digital, via my Nikon D700, Nikon D90, Canon Rebel Tl1 and even my pocketable Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5. In addition, I have owned digital cameras from Olympus and Sony, but I would have to say that Nikon is my camera of choice. I use Nikkor lenses generally, my Nikkor VR 18-200 3.5-5.6, my Nikkor 12-24, and my Nikkor VR 24-105 getting most of my attention. My Canon is generally a backup, and I keep a Canon 18-55 zoom on it, but I sometimes replace it with the image-stabilized ultrasonic 75-300 lens or the 1.8 50mm lens.

   

For developing, I do a great deal of post-processing, using Picassa for everyday work, and Photoshop Elements (6.0) for most of my publishable work. For in-house printing, I generally use either my Canon Pro 9000 or my Canon Pixma iP4600.

   

I have recently retired as an elementary school principal. Before that, I was an elementary and middle school teacher for 29 years. I have always been known for my photos of children in the classroom, and the walls of my schools came alive with nearly a thousand 5×7 and 8×10 photos of children excited by their learning. I still occasionally serve as an interim principal for the District when a regular principal is away from school.

   

My wife, who has recently retired as an award-winning middle schools special needs teacher, and I love to travel, and over the past 20 years we have cruised to Canada, nearly every island in the Caribbean, Alaska, Mexico, and Europe (numerous times). At times we have traveled with my daughter who is an educator specializing in early childhood education and my son, who is both working and attending community college.

   

My travels have provided me with the material for more than 100,000 photos, and hours upon hours of joy.

   

I recently returned from a whirlwind 27 day cross-country trip from Boston as far west as Wyoming and Utah and then back. 8000 miles and nearly 9000 photos later, I am hoping to one day find a publisher who is interested in a photography book narrating my experiences.

   

My photography business has been part-time until now, and has focused on both weddings and senior photos. Having just retired, I am now focusing solely on landscape, travel and nature fine art photography.

   

Unless otherwise stated, all photographs are copyrighted (c) Mitchell R. Grosky Photography. All Rights Reserved. You may not use any image on this site without my written consent. If you are interested in using any of my photos from this site or from any website, please send me a quick email at mrgrosky@msn.com and let me know which photo(s) you are interested in.

   

I am very interested in your comments and would welcome any constructive criticism. Please tell me what you like, and what just doesn’t work for you. If you have any suggestions or tips, I would love to hear them.

   

Thanks for visiting my flickr site. Please check in again for more photos when you get a chance. If you like photography, I hope you'll also visit my main photo website at www.mrgroskyphoto.com and my photo blog at mrgrosky.wordpress.com

 

Some of my other sites are the following:

 

www.mitchellrgrosky.wordpress.com

 

www.redbubble.com/people/mrgrosky

 

www.greetingcarduniverse.com/mitchellrgrosky

 

twitter.com/mitchgrosky

 

www.zazzle.com/mrgrosky

 

and thisweekwithmitchgrosky.wordpress.com