Michael Hudson has been passionate about creating beautiful images since he was a teenager growing up in the rolling hills of Surrey (England). But his interest in photography goes back to when he was a small boy, spending magical nights watching family slide shows projected on the living room wall. At the age of seventeen, he entered a photography competition that required shooting in black and white film, which started a lifelong pursuit of artistic photography that has only grown stronger with the passage of time. 

Mike has been a professional photographer for over twenty-five years, living near Chicago and dividing his time between commercial photo shoots and creating fine art images. His images have been seen in hundreds of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic Traveler, COLOR Magazine, Washingtonian, the Discovery Channel and Outdoor Photography (UK), Good Morning America (ABC-TV) as well as on countless websites.

His fine art images have been featured on dozens of book covers, websites, magazines, and collected by private and corporate art collectors. He has maintained relationships with several fine art poster publishers for more than fifteen years and sold over 10,000 posters in that time. In 2010, he was a featured photographer in COLOR magazine, a magazine dedicated to collectors of fine art color photography. In 2016, his work was featured in a 27-page spread in f11 magazine. He has also been a finalist in the Hasselblad Masters, and Black and White Spider awards. In 2017, he won the International Garden Photographer of the Year top prize for black and white photography. In 2018, he led his first solo landscape photography workshop in Acadia National Park (Maine).

In 2014, he published an ebook, The Photographers Guide to Acadia, and in 2015 he self-published Under October Skies, a coffee table photography book of his images from Acadia National Park, made over nine annual October visits to the Park.

Mike got his start in the world of professional photography by photographing Princess Diana and the British Royal Family during the late 1980's. The experience taught him how to think fast, work in difficult situations, compose quickly, and above all to be patient– which has been of enormous benefit when working in landscape and fine art photography.