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Tulsa Attack
1/8/2023
Top Gear Pick
Getting ready for another Yellowstone Winter Wildlife Tour with @aaronstours and thought I would post my top pick on gear this year. These are my must haves, for one reason or another, which I will go into below. @sonyalpha Sony a1 camera. This is...
Mike Named As Brand Ambassador For GuraGear
Mike Darter is a photographic artist with the natural world as his preferred subject. Mike has been studying and documenting wildlife and wild spaces since he was a young boy, growing up in Oklahoma. Mike’s images teach us about our natural world through the...
JM Darter Artworks Featured in Swagger Magazine
J. Michael's photography and artwork was featured recently in an article on Swagger Magazine. Below is an excerpt from the article. HOW TALENT, QUALITY EQUIPMENT, AND VISION TURN PHOTOGRAPHS INTO STATEMENTS Darter isn’t snapping shots off of his phone’s camera and...
Guadalupe Great Whites
I recently had to opportunity to spend a few days at Guadalupe Island with Nautilus Liveboards on a great white shark tour. This was the first official underwater tour that I have been on. Spoiler alert, it was awesome! I had never been much into underwater...
Alaska Brown Bears
I recently returned from Alaska on a Brown Bear tour with Aaron's tours. It was a fantastic tour with an adventure filled week of photographing brown bears in Lake Clark and Katmai National parks. We started from Anchorage, where we met with the group and had a...
SOSA Art Collaboration- Summer 2021
The SOSA Art Collaboration- Summer show was a great success, and I would like to thank the sponsors, West Real Estate, Sweet Law Firm, CCW Safe, 2A Holdings, and DOPE the Movement, for their support. The show featured photography and art from Mike Darter, and art works from Dameon Allensworth. Dameon is also an accomplished musical recording artist, and he played an acoustic set with legendary Nashville pianist John Henry.
Mike Mentioned on The Phoblographer
The Phoblographer recently published an article on 5 photographers that are getting the most use out of the Sony A7R4, and I am grateful to be one of the featured photographers. I have shot on numerous cameras in the past, including Canon, Nikon, Olympus and Sony. I...
Grand Tetons With The New Sony A7R Mark IV
I recently spent a week in Grand Teton National Park. For the past 6 years I have led photography tours in the park with Aaron's Photo Tours. This year was the first year that we did not lead the tour, but Grand Tetons in the fall is a sort of mental health retreat...
Custom Settings on Sony A7r IV
I recently got the new Sony A7R mark IV, and the first thing I did was dive into the menu settings and get it set up for my style of shooting. The new Sony has a change in the form factor, which made it much more comfortable in my hand. The battery grip was bigger,...