Michael Olmsted

Michael is a Lifestyle, Fashion, Apparel and Product Photographer. He has a fully equipped studio located in West Denver, and also shoots on location. He’s always looking for an excuse to travel for a shoot.

We enjoyed chatting with talented photographer Michael Olmsted, who shared his story with us: As a sailor, Michael traversed the high seas of the far east where he was bitten until bloody by a fuzzy animal a fraction of his size. He got very sick and then recovered after being blessed by a man in golden robes. Michael then voyaged to the middle east where he discovered red skies, and water on fire and was very confused. Returning home, still confused, he was robbed, and later taken in by a gaggle of street youths that demanded that he live in van by day, and make music by night. Sleepy, odorous, and desiring domestication, Michael learned how to use a camera, went to school, and got a job. He made photographs for CP+B, Microsoft, Infiniti, Domino’s, Hershey’s, and Kraft for many years, until one day he heard of a bird with two beaks across the sea and decided that he must go. Once there, he had a confrontation with the local mafia, and was urinated on by a lesser ape. Later, out of harms way, and laying low in a hut by the sea, Dengue Fever set in and he was nursed back to health by kind women adorned in colorful cloth. Disillusioned, and having lost much weight, he returned home once again, where he still often wakes up sweating, and mumbling about ‘flying snakes’.