A few years on, and Michelle has developed an impressive folio to her name. I love that her work accentuates the most simple lines and shapes in the design of the building – or bridge – that you may not have even noticed in real life. A talent that is widely appreciated by architects and designers.

Michelle also has a strong background in studio photography for portraiture and advertising.

I highly recommend taking a look at more of Michelle’s photography on her website.

How have you got to where you are today? I have always been brought up with creativity around me. My Mum and her side of the family are creative people and have always encouraged me to think out side the square.

My initiation into architectural photography, was inspired by my uncle, who showed me how to appreciate line, shape and form as the primary elements used to create beautiful structures.

As a teenager I had a passion for art and photography, I successfully entered some competitions and decided this was the career path I wanted to pursue. I enrolled and studied commercial photography at university and did my time assisting some of Melbourne’s top photographers, these mentors remain good friends and willingly imparted their knowledge and encouraged me to take the leap into freelance photography.

I am eternally grateful to them because everyday I go to work, I think about how lucky I am to be doing something I really love!

In a few words, describe yourself… Passionate, loving, creative, motivated, open minded and honest.

What are you spending your time on at the moment? Shooting both for existing and new clients, processing files, planning on what’s coming up, thinking about folio updates and direction, and general business.

Do you have a ritual for getting into the creative mindset? Or a creative process? Not necessarily a ritual, but sifting through my library of books nearly always works.

Before any commercial shoot, I find spending as much time as I can on the planning, thinking, scribbling and workshopping the ideas against inspirational images is really important to my process.

What or who inspires you? Passionate people, amazing landscapes, beautiful exhibitions, films and of course other photographers.

I especially love the work of Annie Leibovitz, Rolph Gobits, Stephen Wilkes, Wolfgang Sievers, Mark Seliger, Mark Stizic, just to name a few!

What are you most proud of? I am proud of where I am in my career so far. It is very easy to push aside and forget your achievements when you get caught up in striving for success. Especially when success happens for most people over time and is measured in so many different ways.

I definitely have so much more I would like to achieve over the years and am looking forward to every step along the way.

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I have always and still do have a great love for animals so I wanted to be a Vet until I was old enough to realize I would have to put one down one day and that was the end of that.