The Hawk River Mission
Hawk River Images is a
photography, digital printing and design enterprise located on the
Northern California coast in Half Moon Bay. The company is built to
provide visual solutions through applied digital imaging technololgy.
In more concrete terms, that means that we figure out ways to used
photography and digital processing to meet your display or image needs.
We provide a range of products and services all related to photographic
imagery and processing such as original photographic fine art
prints, greeting cards, stock images for both print and web use digital
large format printing, fine art (giclee) printing, and custom framing or
presentation services. We also provide web design and development and
web consulting services.
About Hawk River
If Hawk River were a place, it would be in the Pacific coastal mountains
buttressed by tall evergreens, with flowing streams, wetlands and rocky
bluffs and hawks would soar on the gentle breezes. But as you've likely
guessed already, Hawk River is not a real place name (at least not one
that I could find). Instead, it is a business name intended to convey a
sense of the rustic outdoors and reflect an essence of the quiet power
of imagery.
Contacting Hawk River
Mailing Address:
Hawk River Images
80 N. Cabrillo Hwy
Suite Q-114
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
Voice phone:
650 472-3200
Sales or general inquiries:
info@hawkriverimages.com
Customer Service and Support
Go to http://support.hawkriverimages.com to
file a service request. Or email
support@hawkriverimages.com
Not Really a Bio
Hawk River Images is a sole proprietorship operated by Michael Sweeney
(yes, I know there are a lot of Michael Sweeneys around. No, it's not
that one.).
Visual media has always drawn me, even when I could not draw it. The camera
and it's adjuncts appeal to me more than drawing and painting, I think, more
from a lack of patience than from result, but who knows. I also draw and,
occassionaly, paint. Since grade school, I have not been far from some
sort of visual expression and even if I'm not doing something with it,
I always have the tools of visual media around me.
Once I wanted to be a commercial artist and I let someone intimidate me
away from it. The first camera I handled was the proverbial brownie, but
my first "real" camera was a Russian made 35mm SLR I bought in high school.
It didn't work long, but it helped lead to me to a Journalism major at
the University of Wyoming where I was trained in photojournalism. I was
soon distracted away from that by the need to get work, but kept cameras
of some sort around (including a Rollei TLR and an old Speed Graphic 4 x 5)
until I leapt head first into digital photography.
I have, through school and life, dabbled in graphic arts, phtotography,
videography, writing, woodworking and computer technology (a variety of
facets, but precious little actual computer science). The computer
work is the most ephemeral of all of these but the most lucarative. And
since my basic attitude is that the value of living is what you add to
the world, it is the least significant. And so I have returned my passions
to visual arts, and particularly photography, in the hope that it is not
too late to add some granual of contribution to the world at large through
an image or a word.
I have now determined again to pick up the photographer's mantle and I look
through life like a viewfinder at ways to tell stories with the pictures.
I am better at it than I was, but not as good as I will be. And perhaps
in time I will find an image that speaks to you of light and dark.
At any rate, the images speak for themselves. They each convey a moment,
and some may evoke or move or inspire and some may only record. But they
each reflect, and that is perhaps the point. A photograph is an attempt
to eff the ineffable. And what is effed is left as an exercise for the
viewer.
About the photographer
Michael Sweeney is freelance photographer located in Half Moon Bay,
California. With training in photojournalism and experience in both
commercial photography and graphic design, Michael has, since 2004,
been rediscovering his photographic roots through digital technology.
This discovery is expressed in both fine art and commercial photography
through Hawk River Images (http://www.hawkriverimages.com), Michael's
photography and large format printing studio in Half Moon Bay.
Showings and Competitions
- Coastal Arts League 22nd Annual Juried Show, December, 2006
- Fremont Art Association Annual Juried Show and competition, October, 2007
- Coastal Arts League 23rd Annual National Juried Show, December, 2007
